Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worse disappointment was the news from Hollywood. Jack Warner, who had paid $5,500,000 for the film rights to My Fair Lady, did not want Julie for Eliza; it was the simplest sort of Hollywood economics: by Hollywood calculations, she was not an important enough marquee name to risk in a major film. Audrey Hepburn got the part, but though her performance was admirable, her cockney character lacked the wondrous snippety snarl that Julie had given the role; Eliza's singing, moreover, was largely a product of outside dubbing, and short of Julie's performance at that...
...event, to propose spending the money on services which such research as we have suggests will produce little or no effect is to risk being thought ridiculous or worse by members of the public, and we would delude ourselves if we did not see that this judgement has already been reached by large numbers...
Military men agree that the bombing has made it inestimably more difficult for Hanoi to supply troops in the South, but they argue that it makes no sense to risk heavy losses on such targets as trucks and supply shacks. An F-4 Phantom costs $2,500,000, they point out, while a Viet Cong hutch may be worth $20 and a pack animal $100. The brass want to hit Haiphong's port, big factories and the Red River Valley dams that supply most of the North's power...
...Federal Court that there was absolutely no evidence that he was even likely to engage in espionage or sabotage. Nevertheless, none of McBride's constitutional rights were infringed, ruled the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. Even though a man is only a potential security risk, there is "nothing unreasonable" in barring him from jobs that are "vital" to national defense...
...points out that the vast majority of youths in Western societies go through long periods of protracted sexual tension. With the welfare of man as his criterion, Simons suggests that it is psychologically better for them to release this tension by masturbation than to prolong it at the risk of developing a morbid preoccupation with sex. The Catholic church's inflexibility in condemning remarriage after divorce is also not in accord with the modern view of human welfare. All efforts should be made to discourage and prevent divorce, Simons says, but he also believes that it would be better...