Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Long-Hair Appeal. Bobby, of necessity, is thus looking toward 1972-though he runs the risk of becoming passe by then. As Psephologist Scammon notes: "The life span of the presidential butterfly is not great." Meanwhile the New York Senator is aiming his appeal at a special constituency. Within five years, 26 million new voters will have come of age, and Kennedy is fond of quoting Goethe's dictum: "The destiny of any nation, at any given time, depends on the opinions of its young men under...
...suppressed their anxiety and related reactions. One man, an unquestioning Roman Catholic, was convinced that God would look after him. Another, with a parimutuel mentality, had painstakingly taken the reported casualties and calculated the chance that any one man would be killed or injured on any single day. The risk, he concluded, was so slight that he could stop worrying. All the men, no matter how often they talked of near misses by Viet Cong ground fire, had convinced themselves of their own invulnerability...
...Risk Your Life for An Ideology...
...regimes want acceptance of party policies, and commitments to carrying them out. The Polish surveys, as well as other evidence, however, show that young people are increasingly less committed to sacrificial, revolutionary programs. Sixty-eight percent of the 1958 survey respondents said they did not think one should risk one's life for a social ideology. Young people appear by no means inspired to support grand schemes for construction of radically new societies. Their real concern is for more opportunity for self-expression, for the satisfaction of personal goals and wants...
...that, many Westerners are eager to make use of Yugoslavia's cheap labor and get in on the growing East European market for Western goods. Several Swedish firms have announced that they are looking for Yugoslav partners "on the condition that business risk be shared, as well as profits." West Germany's Volkswagen is so anxious to set up an assembly plant with Yugoslavia's Dalmaciya Auto that it is offering a full 49% of the necessary cash as investment capital under the code and the remaining 51% as a long-term loan...