Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...turning point came on Sept. 30 in Salt Lake City, the day after Humphrey endured some of the worst heckling of the entire campaign. Fists clenched, lips tight, he flew to Utah to deliver a speech pledging that if he became President, he would risk halting the bombing of North Viet Nam in the hope of achieving peace. Twice before, Johnson had undercut him when he tried to stake out even moderately independent positions on the war. This time there was not a word from the White House...
Could the U.S. assume that these would not increase once there was no risk of aer ial attack...
Good for Morale. Just why Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser should fan his people's warlike mood and risk Israeli retaliation could only be a matter of speculation. Certainly the duel improved home-front morale and Nasser's political position. It also provided training. Under cover of the Suez barrage, about 70 soldiers crossed the canal and staged an ambush, killing two Israeli soldiers. But the most intricate theory had it that Nasser had been put up to it by his Russian advisers as a warm-up for an attempt to clear the Suez by force...
...Luce gave his staff an extraordinary degree of independence. "As an editor," writes Elson, "he did not like to lay down guidelines and rules; he understood that creative writers and editors worked better if given wide latitude. He was often disappointed in their work, but he accepted the risk as part of the price of aggressive journalism...
...familar historical paradox; simply, polemics are substituted for problem-solving and what starts out as an intellectual problem atrophies into so much stone-throwing and name-calling. Of course one must realize that by jumping in the middle of a stone fight one always runs the risk of being hit and mediation is invariably viewed by one side or the other as a sneaky attempt at a put down. But for either side to view this issue in terms of victory or defeat would be exceedingly dangerous--victory in this case would be marginal and deluding and would, at best...