Word: risked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Risk of Trouble. Poland is in further trouble in its foreign trade. Although sales of coal, the nation's biggest export, have slumped sharply, Poland's imports are soaring. The balance of payments deficit-$142 million last year-rose to $120 million in the first six months of 1959 alone...
Apparently Gomulka hopes to seek his cure in a return to the doctrinaire methods of the Stalinists, but he can only do so at the grave risk of political upheaval. Many a loyal Gomulka supporter is beginning to grumble. One of them, 41-year-old Politburo Member Jerzy Morawski, one of Gomulka's closest lieutenants, turned in his resignation last week at news that the old tough crowd was back...
Bagnoli suffered a fractured right hand when he fell out of bed early this week. He will dress for the game, but coach Bruce Munro does not want his goalie to risk further injury. Still, Bagnoli may get into the fray if the situation becomes desperate...
Ninety per cent of Sarah Lawrence classes contain fewer than fifteen girls. Again the purpose is to administer to individual needs. While there is an occasional reluctance among the girls to speak out and risk making mistakes in these classes, the general result is a free-flowing discussion, which suffers from excessive digression more than from inadequate response...
...administration pointed out, "At any other school, an A ends matters; here without marks you can't win." If a girl responds correctly to these discomforts, the results can be very gratifying, for the quest for knowledge will outlast the final session of the course. There is a risk, however, that the student will lose her way without the tangible incentive of a good mark...