Word: risked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...letters from readers who wanted to be hypnotized too. Wrote an Evening Standard contributor: "Many have found that gargling with silver nitrate, swallowing bicarbonate, or well coating the palate with toffee or chewing gum are strong discouragements-to the extent that smoke can then be inhaled only at the risk of an explosion...
...Electric's C. E. Wilson. Said N.P.A. in the bluntest warning business has yet received about its price policies: regardless of the reasons for the dangerous price situation, the responsibility for correcting it was "squarely up to businessmen. Other economic groups must cooperate. But it is to the risk-takers of our system that the public logically looks for risk-taking." Consumer prices have outrun consumer purchasing power and "price increases, with some significant exceptions, also ran ahead of costs and thus brought a sharp expansion of profits in 1946 and through the first quarter of 1947. . . . Abnormally high...
...true that all is not in order here, but much has been done. For example, in those large areas where there is no Communist problem China is a good risk. . . . Even the French are interested in a railway between Chengtu and Indo-China. Only the Americans hold aloof-waiting for better risks...
...roses. Working in quick-fingered teams, the white-bloused girls of Grasse filled wicker baskets with blossoms, carried them to the huge stills to have the odorous oils extracted. Combined and transmuted by chemists, they will be dabbed behind the ears of women throughout the world to multiply the risk of genteel seduction...
...sallow, round faced man with a crew cut and a cigar clenched in his teeth might run serious risk of physical injury upon entering the Radcliffe yard, judging from the unfavorable reception met by these characteristics. Two conservative young students, obviously fed up with the deluge of ex-servicemen who have been storming the 'Cliffe of late, went so far as to write in negative votes beside "crew cuts," while seven delicate lasses raised their noses in the air and ejaculated, "Anything but cigars...