Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Montgomery, who basically favors church-state cooperation, nonetheless says that there should be "watchful vigilance," lest the church become "just another social agency." The Rev. Dean Kelley of the National Council of Churches also worries that U.S. Christianity may become so involved in social projects that it runs the risk of becoming just another client of government. "The greatest function of the modern church," he says, "is that of focusing moral power, not exercising public administration...
Talking like a Dutch uncle even at the risk of suffering the cruel label of Uncle Tom, used by many Negroes to avoid thinking about the merits of moderation, Wilkins boldly argues that the Negroes' goal is to "rank at last as men among the world...
...small boy in India, where his father was a Presbyterian missionary. He bought the 36-year-old Tinker-belle six years ago for $250, completely rebuilt her, taught himself navigation, and practiced long-distance sailing on Lake Erie. "There is a time when one must decide either to risk everything to fulfill one's dreams or sit for the rest of one's life in the backyard," he told his wife...
...Pigs fiasco, President Kennedy learned that it is vital to our security that a President be a forceful and intelligent leader, the sole determiner of policy. The major lesson for the American people is that it is better to accept a momentary setback in prestige than risk a long-lasting loss of respect throughout the world. Kennedy best expressed this concept when he said, "What is prestige? Is it the shadow of power or the substance of power?" The Bay of Pigs was far from a total loss for the U.S., for it provided Kennedy with an insight into foreign...
...there is another pound crisis like last November's, some of the nations that anted up $3 billion to bail out Britain then might not be eager to rescue Britain again. For Labor, which governs by a three-vote majority, the new deflationary steps are fraught with risk. Since taking office last October, the government has scrapped almost its entire program of social change and has taken $2.3 billion out of the economy to defend the pound -on which its political life now hangs...