Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...glad to risk wearing one here...
Moderator Eric Sevareid started the hour-long debate by saying: "The cost and risk of fighting this war have to be measured against the risks and costs of not fighting it." As five TV cameras rolled, the Government's critics explained why they thought the risks were too grave and the costs too high...
...Moscow was embarrassed because Ben Bella had been decked out with a Lenin Peace Prize. It hardly seemed decorous to embrace the new man too hastily, so Russia did nothing. China, desperately wanting the conference as a sounding board for anti-U.S. and anti-Russian blasts, ran the risk of alienating Algerian leftists and recognized the new government. Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, while carefully pointing out that recognition was between states, not personalities, still withheld his blessing from the junta that had ousted his close friend and safest ally...
...Successful? So successful are the Japanese that they risk their own undoing. They are selling Africa far more than Africa can sell to Japan, thus creating a sharp payments imbalance. Japan sells ten times as much to Nigeria as it buys, three times as much to Kenya and Uganda, twice as much to Tanzania. In an effort to correct the balance, Tanzania and Uganda recently banned all imports from Japan. They want more Japanese investing, fewer imports-and the government loan was Japan's attempt to soothe their growing discontent. "The Japanese are not easy people to deal with...
...seven stolen children whose innocence is only skin deep. Blood kin to the tykes in Henry James's Turn of the Screw or William Golding's Lord of the Flies, they are remote, ritualistic, amoral-natives of a savage Lilliput that adults invade at their own risk...