Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...football is a contact sport, and pain and risk are an integral part of the game. It is the job of the trainers and the doctors, as well as the equipment designers and the coaches, to alleviate the pain, reduce the risk, and assure that cases like Al Buder's are as few as is humanly possible...
Anderson the scholar implies that they wouldn't. In his chapter on the private developer, he says that free enterprise naturally builds where building is profitable. Urban renewal construction is potentially quite profitable, but it usually involves a high degree of risk. "It seems likely," he sums up, "that what has been accomplished so far by private enterprise in urban renewal has been largely a result of the government's decision to underwrite a substantial amount of the risk involved." One can only conclude that the author of the second book hasn't followed the arguments of the first...
...bracing antidote to the plethora of two-dimensional teledramas in which tinsel laurels automatically crown the good guy. Adult in theme, effectively written and excellently acted, the series will for 26 weeks focus on characters from American history, many obscure but united by a common bond-their willingness to risk and if necessary sacrifice their careers for their ideals. Happily scheduled for early Sunday evening, a prime kiddy viewing hour, it also packs a grown-up message, articulated by Kennedy himself in a 1957 recording of the conclusion of his book: "The stories of past courage can define that ingredient...
...many ultra-conservative Democrats holding once secure seats in the deep south. They, and most of the voters who elect them are followers of Republicans like Barry Goldwater, John Tower, and Storm Thurmond. If they continue to run on the Democratic ticket for reasons of tradition and seniority, they risk losing the election (as Williams and Watson certainly would have if they had had Republican opponents) or their seniority. If they run on the Republican ticket, they lose their chance to obtain power through committees and they still risk defeat. Whatever happens to Williams and Watson, conservative southern politicians...
...after American jets bombed North Vietnam's torpedo-boat bases, both China and the Soviet Union announced that they would not "sit idly by" in the face of any U.S. "aggression" against North Vietnam. It is clear that were South Vietnam to attack North Vietnam, American would risk another Korea and probably worse...