Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Amman, Jordan's capital, I discovered that the greatest single danger was not the risk of an Israeli bullet or the stealthy trips I took with the commandos along the Jordan Valley. It was the risk of spending all my time in a hotel room waiting for telephone calls that might never come, or under street lights at secret rendezvous points. For appointments that might never be kept. For the big brains of the fedayeen are not down by the riverside, but in and around Amman. To find them is tricky and tedious. Because of their inbred sense...
Winter of the Flu. Ailing youngsters and oldsters run a considerably greater risk that the infection will move down from the upper respiratory tract (mouth, nose, throat and windpipe) to the lungs, causing a form of viral pneumonia, or that the viral infection will make the lungs prey to bacterial pneumonia. For this last complication, antibiotics are prescribed-sometimes in advance, in the hope of preventing...
...Adson's way of thinking the question was this: If a gallstone is detected while it is still silent and causing no trouble, should it be removed immediately and prophylactically to protect the patient against possible future illness that might threaten his life? Weighing present risk against future peril, and after examining thousands of recorded cases, Adson rather cautiously concluded that prophylactic surgery is sometimes justified. One case in point: a patient under 65 who has coronary artery disease; the risks become far greater, said Adson, if such a patient has to have emergency gall-bladder surgery later...
...musical's tall, gangling antihero, Chuck Baxter (Jerry Orbach), is an underling at Consolidated Life and looks suspiciously like a poor insurance risk. His arms seem to dangle somewhere close to his knees, and his face bears the gasp-jawed incredulity of a deep-sea diver whose air supply has just been cut off. What makes him mildly appealing is that he confides his utter lack of confidence in self-abasing little asides to the audience. It is hard to think ill of a man who thinks so ill of himself...
...cinema is not just pictures. It is something great, mysterious and sublime, for which should not spare any effort and for which one should not fail to risk one's life if the need arises...