Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...words, the convention passed a resolution that called for the withdrawal of U.S. troops from Viet Nam as well as the Dominican Republic. No sooner had the resolution been approved than Farmer was on his feet, pleading with the delegates to reconsider. CORE, he warned, ran the risk of losing support if it became involved in a peace movement. "Personally," he told the convention, "I am in complete agreement with the resolution. But I think we in CORE should make those decisions as individuals, not as an organization." The resolution was tabled...
...modernizing archaic codes of criminal procedure, and devising new legal weapons to meet contemporary conditions. Under New York's new "no knock" law, for instance, policemen no longer need identify themselves when executing search warrants in certain kinds of cases, such as those involving narcotics, thus reducing the risk that suspects will destroy the evidence. Local authorities have also sought to reform the out-of-date bail system, under which bondsmen grow fat while poor defendants stay in jail, where they cannot build their cases. As a result, 59% of such defendants get convicted, compared with 10% in cases...
...next three months. Philip, however, did not say nothing. "I recognize," he remarked, "the impressions of many Africans about Rhodesia. But I think that it is better to spin out the solution of these difficulties with patience, and with a bit of luck get a peaceful result rather than risk a bloodbath by forcing the pace...
...readily flammable. It is when it vaporizes and comes in contact with oxygen that hydrogen becomes explosive. Which makes for a vicious problem: how to let off the inevitable vapors and avoid rupture of the tank as a result of the pressure of expanding gas, without running the risk of a fire outside the tank. Surprisingly, there have been few serious accidents in handling the stuff...
...Gaulle, furious at the way his bluff had been called, was simply raising the ante. As for the threat to the Common Market, no people in Europe would lose more from the breakup than France's farmers. It was hard to believe that even De Gaulle would risk such a blow to their pocket-books-particularly in the very week that he chose to set the next national election. He has until...