Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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First with the Latest. The Voice grew up in the days when thousands of people in Occupied Europe would risk death to hear news broadcasts from Britain or America-and never got over its early success. The format was never basically changed. Voice programs came to have, says one observer, the "sound of measured senility," or, in Voice Director John Chancellor's kindlier description, "an institutional sound...
...seat Landtag. Most experts felt that many of the votes had been cast in protest against what the far rightists called "the mess in Bonn." The results served notice on the Christian Democrats and the Socialists that they must either organize a strong new government or run the risk of creating an increasing disenchantment of the voters with the present dominant parties...
...Risk of Death. Just after midnight three weeks ago, some 30 black-clad guerrillas filtered into the tiny town of Long Vinh, 75 miles south of Saigon. They quickly rounded up all 121 people in one area of the village and marched them off, sparing not even a toothless, crippled and nearly blind woman whom one guerrilla carried away on his back. During the march to a Viet Cong camp, 14 women and children risked death by dropping out of line and squatting unobserved in the tall rice. When the group reached its destination, eleven men, 33 women...
...Arts Foundation in Kansas City, Mo., where he has staged two successful operas. But his heart is deep in Texas where at last, he says, he feels secure. "We didn't even have a fund-raising campaign this year," he says happily. "You can't take a risk like that if you're not in solid in your community...
RENAULT: Leaking brake hoses in 125 '66 Gordinis. Said Jean Ordner, executive vice president and general manager for Renault in the U.S.: "Today's report is totally incorrect. The recall was merely a quality improvement, and no accident or risk of accident was involved...