Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...remains the nation's ultimate defense, but defense policy no longer envisions that those forces would be used to counter limited aggression. This flexible-response doctrine, as General Taylor labeled it, stirred misgivings among some Air Force and civilian strategists. They argued that it might encourage Communists to risk limited aggression, might even weaken the effectiveness of nuclear striking power as a deterrent against a major Communist thrust. The debate has since quieted down, but last week, in a speech in Seattle, Washington's Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson showed that misgivings still linger. He "strongly supported...
...white mobs glared at each other in the streets. Late in the week demonstrators again descended upon Dizzyland. This time Fehsenfeld was not standing in the doorway, and a few demonstrators walked inside. "You are not wanted in here," cried Fehsenfeld. "Understand, you come in here at your own risk." Then he locked his door. The demonstrators looked around-and got a grim surprise. Waiting in the restaurant were more than a dozen white toughs. They charged into the demonstrators and beat them up while angry Negroes outside, hearing the screams and groans inside Dizzyland, pounded on the locked door...
...Risk-Free Profit. The U.S. Government's price-support system, Higbee argues, is grotesquely ill-designed to cope with the problems it is supposed to remedy-overproduction and rural poverty. A support price that is high enough to cover the production costs of a small-scale, inefficient farmer provides a glorious opportunity for risk-free profit to the large-scale, efficient farmer with his much lower costs of production per bushel or bale. The support price of corn, for example, is $1.25 a bushel, and the big producer can grow corn for less than 70? a bushel. Clearly...
...illnesses of these men recalled the stirring days of Walter Reed's famous campaign against yellow fever in Cuba at the turn of the century, when one researcher died and others had close calls. For the two physicians and the technician had been working selflessly, at great risk, in an internationally supported crash program to pinpoint the cause of a mysterious disease, and to find a preventive...
Wringing the Dollars. Even so, Hilton is doing better than most hoteliers in the U.S., and better than any abroad. An English author once described American tourists as people who "dare everything and risk nothing"-and nowhere do they risk less than at Hilton hotels. Whether he is in Teheran or Trinidad, the traveler can be sure that Hilton will offer him a clean bed, pleasant surroundings, plentiful ice water, and food that he can safely eat. He can also be sure that, while supplying American comforts, Hilton will wring his dollars out of him as efficiently, as economically...