Word: risked
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...indirect elections in Brazil next year. The inaccuracies appear in the headline and the first two paragraphs. My statement on this problem was confined to a description of the reasoning of the proponents of indirect elections, which I did not endorse in any way. I said nothing about "the risk of an electoral orgy," using the term "electoral orgy" only to describe the large numbers of offices to be filled in next year's elections...
...between Red China's Yunnan province and the rest of China, and with the U.S. hitting it twice a week since Sept. 4, all traffic to Yunnan is now moving by highway or air. So far, Peking has not retaliated. "We figured it was a pretty good calculated risk," says a military spokesman...
...Bigger Risk. American planners still feel that the risk involved in blasting North Viet Nam's industrial complex-as LeMay demands-is too high. Such attacks would do little to hamper North Viet Nam's war effort, since most of its weapons and ammunition come from Red China and Russia. More important, goes the U.S. reasoning, if Ho Chi Minh's "hostage" industries-coal and iron mines, port facilities and Red River dams-were taken out, he might enlarge the war by sending his 450,000-man army south in an all-out move to take South...
...correct name. Copley's contemporary, Pennsylvania-born Benjamin West, living in London since 1763, urged him to visit Europe's art treasures and learn to eliminate his too "liny" look. Not until the eve of the Revolution did Copley, accused of being a Tory sympathizer, dare risk ocean passage. He left behind him three houses and 20 acres on Beacon Hill. Copley never returned to America...
Brazil faces "the risk of an electoral orgy" next year if the elections are based on popular vote, Lincoln Gordon '34, United States ambassador to Brazil, told the Dunster House Forum last night...