Word: risked
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...were two young idealists, helpers in Fidel Castro's drive to power in Cuba, willing to risk prison and death to fight their old comrade-at-arms? See THE HEMISPHERE, No Time for Tourists...
...tempting though the 81 delegate votes were. "Every Democrat with whom I've discussed it in California in the last twelve months has been reluctant to have a serious interparty split," said Kennedy. And, he admitted sadly, he could find "no Democrat" in California who thought he should risk a primary fight against Governor Edmund G. ("Pat") Brown...
...demand progress; most like conditions the way they are, or feel that political action can do nothing positive and may make everything more difficult. Politicians, sensitive to this sentiment, oppose actions with uncertain social effects. If there is no public outcry for Urban Renewal, they think, why should we risk our future by agreeing to tear down slum dwellings? After all, voters live there...
...Belafonte, who is also the producer) is a singer in a Harlem hotspot who signs on for a bank robbery to pay off his bookie. Unhappily, once he is in, he discovers that another member of the gang is a paranoid punk from Oklahoma (Robert Ryan) who would sooner risk the bundle than his sense of white supremacy. The punk calls the Negro "Brother Bones," and warns him not to "crap out" on the job. "Ah been handlin' [Negroes] all mah life. He's no diff'ent because he's got him a twenty-dollah pair...
...signals over mountains, across oceans, and up to the moon and back. But the search for a radio that could transmit signals beneath the water's surface was sterner. To receive messages in World War II, subs had to surface or poke up the antenna-bearing periscope and risk detection. Last week word leaked that the U.S. Navy has whipped this underwater communications problem...