Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...feeble fight against Goldwater. By their reasoning, it was as good a time as any to exorcise the right wing's dream that it could sweep the nation by offering voters "a choice, not an echo." So disastrous was the result that the moderates are unlikely to risk relinquishing the nomination to the conservative wing again without a bruising battle...
...going onstage, it's wonderful." Others, like Tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, follow no regimen. Says he: "If I don't make love regularly, I get bad-tempered, my voice gets heavy and my eyes bloodshot. If I do overdo it, however, my high C sharps run the risk of finishing up as C naturals." Tenor Ramon Vinay claims that during one long period of deprivation in South America, his high tenor turned into a deep baritone...
There is little risk that a hernia at this site will become strangulated, but the President did suffer discomfort from clothing rubbing against the tender, stretched skin that might have become ulcerated. Though the operation to push the protruding gut back and close the rupture securely is not dangerous, it demands exquisitely delicate dissection and needlework because the muscle fibers are layered and crisscrossed like the Warp and woof of a carpet...
Frederic J. Gruber '67, president of HSA told the managers that the $40,000 capital fund would allow the HSA to experiment with a number of new business possibilities which it has never before had the financial cushion to risk. "We could never feel secure investing in new possibilities," Gruber said, "when there were real sinkers in other areas...
...scandal" has been a political football in the state for more than a year and a half. What actually happened remains obscure even now. It began in early 1965 when rumors circulated through Minnesota insurance offices that the American Allied Insurance Co., a St. Paul firm which insured high-risk drivers was financially unstable and that three Chicago brothers were diverting most of the premiums into their own pockets...