Word: risked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Good Risk." Douglas quickly won the confidence of thousands of weary, sensitive British citizens with his pre-sailing judgment: "Britain is a good risk." He bolstered his popularity when he got to London and said: "Mrs. Douglas and I propose to live as simply as possible...
Last month, rather than risk complete collapse, Erleigh gave up. He invited his old partner, conservative Bob Hersov, to take over New Union with the option to buy part of its best properties. Hersov accepted. In order to get a moratorium from New Union's creditors, he threw the company into "judicial management." By taking over New Union, Hersov gave U.S. financiers a major beachhead in South Africa through a comparatively new company, American Anglo-Transvaal Corp. (TIME...
...materials shortage that is already drum-tight. His Government boycott plan was politically impractical. Those who thought he was too wide-eyed on Russia would still think so. Where I Stand set free-talking Harold Stassen up as a fair target for all comers, but that was the risk he had been accepting all along...
...Audubon, N J., Mrs. Myrtle S. Lewis defied a notice from her landlord to vacate a six-room house. Landlord David C. Lang then removed the roof. But the First Presbyterian Church Men's Club started building Mrs. Lewis a new roof. Despite a risk of prosecution for trespassing, the Men's Club remained firm in its "belief that all people should have roofs over their heads...
...Right. The question: Should the R.P.F., which was not quite six months old, risk its prestige and its future by putting up candidates in the October municipal elections? Ten of the twelve spoke against it as premature. The movement, they said, was not sufficiently organized, candidates for all municipalities could not be found in time, a defeat at the polls would be fatal. Malraux proposed a compromise: an R.P.F. slate in two cities only, Paris and Algiers. Then the eleven lieutenants looked at the tall, slow-moving, impassive man who had galvanized and symbolized France's will to live...