Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...implementation of the dismantling of ground-based missiles in Turkey and Italy. McNaughton also traveled to Moscow with Averell Harriman to help negotiate the test-ban treaty. Because he may be called to work on "crises" at any moment, McNaughton says he doesn't "dare run the risk of being away from his office." The object of risk is a single telephone with a blue light at which he stares with awe. If the phone rings, assistant secretary Gilpatric is calling; if both the phone rings and the light shines, Secretary McNamara is on the line...
...There are risks and the risks are great," warned left-wing Socialist Leader Pietro Nenni. We must accept "the margin of risk," declared Christian Democratic Chief Aldo Moro. The atmosphere plainly was more suspicious than auspicious for the new Italian government. After months of dickering, while the nation marked time under a caretaker Cabinet, the Christian Democrats finally were ready to conclude their marriage of convenience-or perhaps inconvenience-with Nenni's left-wing Socialists. It was the first time in 16 years that a doctrinaire Marxist party would share power in any major West European Cabinet...
Elsewhere government troops, many under new commanders, counterattacked more vigorously and even seized the initiative. Lieut. General Duong Van Minh and his ruling junta seemed more willing than Diem to risk casualties. In the south, 800 guerrillas staged a predawn assault on Chala, overran half the outpost, but were repulsed by savage machine-gun fire. When paratroopers and B-26 bombers hurried to the rescue, the Reds shot down one B26. Yet the counterblow was effective; villagers reported that the fleeing Viet Cong suffered approximately 400 casualties. Northeast of Saigon, government troops ambushed a Viet Cong battalion, killed or wounded...
...President eight weeks ago, he was so confident of victory that he held the most honest election in South Korea's history. The result was almost disastrous; he squeaked in with only 43% of the total vote. Thereafter, Park's Democratic-Republican Party vowed never again to risk such a close shave. Last week, as South Korea elected a new National Assembly, things were a lot closer to normal...
...since October, when Manhattan's other morning tabloid, the Mirror, went out of business. The News, which bought the Mirror and kept a few features and comics, also managed to keep some 200,000 of the Mirror's circulation-a figure that supplied enough extra fat to risk the Sunday price increase. And that inevitably gave rise to further speculation: how long would the Daily News remain the only nickel daily in New York...