Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Some say that Goldwater should be given the nomination if only to prove to the party?once and for all?that super-conservatives can't win. But what a risk! In view of Johnson's wild self-confidence in his personal survival rate in fast cars and in crowds of potential assassins, I'll vote for a real presidential alternative in our California primary: Rockefeller...
...Carre's first novel. It examines the same world of seedy treachery that the author got to know better and like even less by the time he wrote Spy. The tale begins when a Foreign Office clerk apparently commits suicide because he is under suspicion as a security risk, though Smiley has in fact let him know he was cleared. It ends with Smiley battling East German agents...
...overall protection to reduce the risk of infection, the entire pediatric hospital wing is not only comfortably air-conditioned, but is kept under higher pressure than the outside air. In operating rooms and preemie rooms, the air pressure is still higher. Whenever a door is opened, air moves out, and no rush of incoming air can carry germs from personnel to patients...
...children may sleep in, at $6.50 a night (including breakfast and lunch). For the most helpless of all immature humans, the premature baby, there is a special wing consisting of six rooms, each containing four incubators. As each room is emptied, it is completely sterilized, thus greatly reducing the risk of infection for the next occupants. (With a single, large preemie ward, which can never be emptied, this practice is impossible.) And preemies enjoy an electronic monitoring system which, the Hopkins believes, is the first of its kind in the world. Under each armpit of the preemie an electrode...
...this time, Shirley's psychiatrist wants to try for the jackpot. "I'm honored that you'd risk your life for me," she purrs. She has no sooner declined his proposal than the cleaning man arrives and-hey, guess who? Dean Martin, down on his luck and full of last-reel surprises...