Word: risked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Sound Risk. We and those nations with whom we have relations must deal in realities in terms of human freedom. In exchange for our help the military and political pressures which now cause fear and worry as to the future must be removed. Once political and military conditions are stable, much of Europe can again become a sound economic risk. If positive steps are not taken, we shall go from tensions to hatred to civil war and finally to world catastrophe...
McFeely put down uprisings with a ruthless hand. His political control penetrated everywhere. City employees were terrorized. Dock workers were compelled to vote the right way or risk the wrath of A.F.L. union bosses. McFeely had few worries about outside political interference -though he despised Hudson County's notorious Boss Frank Hague, he maintained a working alliance with...
...stories of fantastic prices, poor food, primitive living conditions. But he went anyway, firmly resolved to cut corners, stretch every dollar to its limit. What he found out was that the ubiquitous black market in currency enabled tourists to eat well and travel cheaply, though there was a slight risk in patronizing...
...side of labor in labor disputes and put it back in the role of mediator. It would not break Big Labor's monopoly, but it would force Big Labor to recruit its members by persuasion rather than by Government fiat. It would not put any further economic risk into strikes, but it would make it more difficult to call them. It would try, by legal means, to make labor responsible-which it had not been under the free-&-easy Wagner...
Even at the risk of being branded "smarty-pants college boy stuff," your "Mammy!" editorial should be submitted for reprinting to every newspaper in the country. R.E. Rockman...