Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson, this concept in no way represents a forfeiture of leadership. It means merely that he is willing to accept slow but steady progress toward the "great society" he envisions, rather than risk a setback or stalemate by trying to knock heads together. Johnson's great society does not consist of some grand philosophic design. Johnson distrusts philosophy. He is a pragmatist, and his interest lies in moving step by step toward clearly attainable goals...
...which he has been cast. Today this 22-year-old junior is acclaimed by his followers, and acknowledged by his opponents, as a charismatic orator whose public speaking has amassed powerful popular support at the Berkeley campus. Six months ago he was unknown to the students who now risk jail in support of the FSM, and he stuttered so badly that even his private conversation was difficult to listen to. "Everytime he raised his hand to speak, people in the class sort of shuddered and felt sorry for him," said a student in Savio's philosophy section...
Castro Tactics. The regents' concession was probably sweeping enough to have ended student protests, although undergraduates protested that as individuals they should be free to organize politically and risk arrest without the added jeopardy of university punishment. But the university promptly reopened the dispute by threatening to discipline four student leaders, including Savio, who had organized the demonstration around the police car. Shouted Savio: "This factory does unjust things, and we'll have to cause the wheels to grind to a halt." Then he led the investment of Sproul Hall...
...supplemental calcium and vitamin D. And while the mother-to-be is taking it easy, she may do a little sunbathing, which stimulates her system to make still more vitamin D. It all adds up not only to a hefty dose of the vital vitamin but to some risk that her baby will have heart defects and be mentally retarded as well...
...widower-poet is haunted by the conviction that his late wife never thought he loved her and that he probably didn't. One of her journal entries unearthed by Richard's editor strikingly reveals the contrary, and with this security clearance as a love risk, the poet feels free to wed his blonde disciple...