Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Abeyance. The U.S. obviously has the power to crush Castro's military machine any time it chooses. But that would risk a confrontation with the Kremlin, and for the time being the U.S. would rather see the Russians focusing their hostility on Red China. "This extreme approach is in abeyance, in the absence of a major provocation by Castro," says a U.S. expert. Neither, despite occasional Cuban feelers, will the U.S. consider negotiating a live-and-let-live deal with Castro so long as he remains totally committed to the Soviet bloc and continues his subversion around Latin America...
...assertion and advice in his own writings often seem like spiritual rafts bobbing half-hidden in a holy sea of howevers. Nonetheless, the Pauline manner is unmistakable by now. In style, it can be summed up as a search for balance and order?a goal that runs the risk of ambiguity, of settling for surface rather than substance. His program for the church is renewal, to be achieved, much like L.B.J.'s dream of the Great Society, by consensus?a goal that can easily thwarted by compromise or by inaction where no reconciliation is possible A man genuinely humble...
...dozen empty button boxes, and only Jewish charity keeps it going. A deep affection grows up between the little carpenter and the woman-with which the movie begins to grow less funny. The climax comes with a roundup of Jews for the concentration camps. Should Tono risk hiding his friend or force her to join the frightened crowd in the square? The end is a moving, ironic illumination of the small-scale greed and failure of nerve that enabled the Nazis to triumph over so many free...
...shooting. Time and again U.S. troops are fired upon from the huts of peasant families, from villages that the Viet Cong have commandeered. Should the response be a blast from every deadly weapon available? Or should the troops hold their fire for fear of hitting innocent civilians, and risk letting the Viet Cong escape...
Changing the Law. Because U.S. laws are confusing and frequently disregarded, the American Law Institute has recommended a model abortion code. It would legalize abortions performed in licensed hospitals if at least two physicians agree that there is substantial risk of grave damage to the mother's physical or mental health, or of the child's being born with a grave physical or mental defect, or when the pregnancy results from rape or incest. This would legalize abortions in the German-measles cases. Bills to amend the law along these lines were introduced, but failed, in New York...