Word: risked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Calculated Risk...
...every Munch performance, there is a certain amount of "calculated risk." That is the orchestra never is absolutely sure that everything is going to work out perfectly; consequently they are on edge, always awake, and always sensitive to the wishes of the conductor. This contrasts with the technique of a man like Bruno Walter, who sometimes repeats a few measures so many times that the orchestra becomes bored, and, of course, their playing shows it. Munch never takes a big chance in any performance, but just enough is left in doubt to create the effect he desires. Thus, in performance...
...been hugged by the bear before. The State Department had to be on guard so that a meeting of the Council of Foreign Ministers was not used by Russia as a propaganda trap instead of the beginnings of a real peace settlement. It was a risk that was worth taking...
Like many a wife who suddenly finds herself a widow, tall and comely Margaret Chandler Porter had a tough choice. She could sell her husband's business, or try to run it-at the risk of running it into the ground. The business Claude Tillinghast Porter left behind when he died in 1946 was a wholesale paint firm (whose slogan was "The Painter's Friend"), the St. Louis outlet of his brother's thriving Porter Paint Co. of Louisville. Margaret Porter decided...
Military assistance for western Europe is a risk and a gamble, but it is one we have to take," Bruce C. Hopper 24, associate professor of Government, told an audience in Littauer Auditorium last night. His talk, "Military Aspects of the Atlantic Community" was the fourth in a series sponsored by the United Nations Council...