Word: risked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...always, conservative in his estimate of success. This "unprecedented endeavor," he said, would be "neither sure nor easy . . . against the avowed determination of the Soviet Union and the Communist Party to oppose and sabotage it at every turn." But, in his now familiar phrase, it represented the "calculated risk." He calculated that it would require every penny of the $6.8 billion that he and President Truman had set as the cost of the program for the first 15 months...
...Risk. But the Wallace entry into the presidential race inspired a flurry of furious calculations among both Democratic and Republican politicos. GOPresidential hopefuls, who had to face their first test in the June convention, promptly began figuring the odds all over again...
Whitehead once defined the ideal university professor as "an ignorant man thinking." He possessed the great teacher's greatest gift: nobody ever asked him a foolish question. His philosophy students at Harvard gladly took the calculated risk that Professor Whitehead had demanded-honors or a flunk; no "gentleman...
...Early American." In spite of Hollywood's bad reputation for misusing talent, studios normally try hard with anyone they regard as promising. With Peck, the moviemakers were inclined to outdo themselves. Each studio needed a major male star, and Peck looked like a good risk. Moreover, since no studio had been able to snare him outright, each was determined to sweat the best possible use out of him. Peck was inadvertently handed some bum pictures; but each one was a major production. And during his first years, he had the run of a virtually clear field. Since...
...Even if the money consideration were of no consequence, no Russian, regardless of station in life, and least of all an engineer, would risk even entertaining the thought of communicating with a foreign, capitalist newspaper. . . . Third, of the countless numbers of Russian engineers I have met, both here and in the Soviet Union, not one of them could have possibly written in such good English, or ... displayed such broad knowledge of economic problems here...