Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Governor must have realized in January that he was taking a potentially unpopular stand. He seemed willing, then, to risk unpopularity. If he really believes that capital punishment is wrong, he should be equally willing now; he should oppose the death penalty no matter who exerts pressure upon him and no matter when the next election comes. And he should oppose it even for cop-killers...
...here only partly because they are expensive and hard to get. Very few local people want them. It is one thing to try hallucinatory compounds, such as psylocibin and quite another to try drugs that almost invariably lead to addiction. Most local users of marijuana have no desire to risk addiction...
...China is far from giving up its nuclear ambitions. Some time ago, Khrushchev warned that any country trying to build a bomb without adequate resources might lose its pants. Nevertheless, said Chen, sounding like an echo of Charles de Gaulle, "at the risk of losing our pants, we are determined to go ahead and build our own atomic bombs. Otherwise we will end up as a second-or third-class nation...
...eruptions on the sun eject clouds of deadly high-energy particles deep into space. The chance of such an event occuring during a one-week lunar journey in 1969 will probably be about one to three, odds on which the U.S. has neither the right nor the wish to risk men's lives. Thus 1975 and 1986, both solar minima and free from dangerous radiation showers, may be suggested as more reasonable dates for a lunar expedition...
...Free elections will have to wait at least removal of the Ngos. However, after the attempted coups in 1960 and 1962, which the U.S. failed to support, and the wild vacillation of Americans policy on a coup in recent weeks, South Vietnamese military men are apparently not anxious to risk another...