Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Calculated Risk. Some facts were all too clear. Unlike modern U.S. ships, which contain almost no wood, the Yarmouth Castle was loaded with in flammable paneling and furniture. The fire, which apparently started three decks down amidships, gutted the passenger quarters with satanic speed. Passengers had not been given a single lifeboat drill or even told where their life jackets were stored...
...that cater to Americans, claimed that if the Yarmouth Castle had flown the U.S. flag, she would never have left dock in Miami. A former skipper of the ship, Andrea Amatruda, 43, was even more blunt. Anyone booking passage on the Yarmouth Castle, he declared, was taking a "calculated risk." Unconcerned, passengers in Miami last week continued to troop aboard other equally ancient cruise ships for Nassau...
...weird mysterious mountains, women's rights invade the fastnesses of the Arapahoes, and despairing savagery, assailed in front and rear, vail its scalp-locks and feathers before the triumphant commonplace." Or, Parkman might add today, how a security-minded society and government would seek to remove all risk from the life of the citizen. Have prosperity and a plenitude of leisure softened the American, converting him into a creature fit only for paper shuffling, patio living and petunia potting...
...have the capacity for one adventure inside us, but great adventure is facing responsibility day after day." That view is echoed by Amherst's Historian John William Ward, who sees something "pathetic and sentimental" in the American adventurer. "Today," he says, "the man who is the real risk taker is anonymous and nonheroic. He is the one trying to make institutions work. What we need is not to go West, but to return eastward, to create excitement and adventure in things that are no longer solitary. If a man can only find adventure by going to Alaska or running...
...Dancer!" Fumed Bullfight Critic Leonidas Rivera: "There he stood, the most famous matador in Spain, where he just set a record of 111 fights in a single season: a rattled young man trying to get it over with in as short a time and with as little risk to himself as possible. He did not improve things when he kicked the bull in the snout, and he looked simply grotesque when he charged his second bull with head lowered and butted it in its rump." Yawned Manuel Benitez, better known as El Cordobes: "Even a great bullfighter can get tired...