Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Message for Mao. Even so, the risk might conceivably have to be taken, for the fall of South Viet Nam would probably mean the Communists' overrunning of all Southeast Asia. There
...Organization of American States had just voted diplomatic and economic sanctions against Cuba, and Castro was eager to strike back. "The OAS is garbage, a Yankee ministry of colonies," he railed. "The people of Cuba repudiate the insolent threats of armed aggression. It is one thing to fire without risk on unarmed people, as happened in Panama, and another to invade an armed nation where the people are prepared to shed their last drop of blood in defense of their country...
...years the Administration which we shall replace has distorted and lost that faith. It has talked and talked and talked and talked the words of freedom, but it has failed and failed and failed in the works of freedom. Failures proclaim lost leadership, obscure purpose, weakening wills and the risk of inciting our sworn enemies to new aggressions and to new excesses...
Ohio's Democratic Senator Frank Lausche came rushing up, warned both rasslers that they were running the risk of heart attacks. Said Thurmond: "I'll release him if he wants to be released." Yarborough allowed as how he was still waiting for that second wind...
...least 18 big-league clubs begged for his services, and Reichardt played them off against each other with clinical calm. The bidding, he announced, would start at $100,000. This was too much of "a business and financial risk" for the home-state Milwaukee Braves. But the other teams barely blinked. Kansas City Owner Charles Finley made two trips to Stevens Point in a week. The Angels flew Rick to Palm Springs in Owner Gene Autry's private plane, gave him a tour of Hollywood, brunch in Bel Air, and dinner in Studio City. The New York Mets offered...