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Word: risked (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Bates observes: "We have no problems with hippies, yippies or zippies." George Wallace draws strong support in Warren. Among Negroes in the surrounding area, the word is out that to get a flat tire or an empty fuel tank in Warren or neighboring Dearborn is to run a serious risk of physical assault. In upper-income Grosse Pointe, a matron laments about the Detroit area: "This place is becoming a jungle." She is considering moving to California. In suburban Los Angeles, Morris Boswell, 52, a bulldozer operator, says that Wallace will be elected. Then, he says, "the punks, the queers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE FEAR CAMPAIGN | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...Second Finland. The question is whether the Soviets will limit their at tacks on West Germany to words. Almost all Western military experts, including most West German commanders, feel that the Soviet Union would not risk starting World War III by actually invading the Federal Republic. Nonetheless, ordinary West Germans cannot help feeling physically threatened by the Red Army. Impressed by the swiftness of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia, many West Germans fear that Russian tanks might punch across the border so fast and at so many points that dozens of cities would be overrun before NATO got around...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: A SEVERE CASE OF ANGST IN EUROPE | 10/4/1968 | See Source »

...construction and delivery of the address were shrewdly designed to play up Humphrey's offer of a bombing halt, and to play down its conditional nature. But the text speaks for itself: "As President, I would stop the bombing of the North as an acceptable risk for peace... In weighing that risk--and before taking any action--I would place key importance on evidence of Communist willingness to restore the demilitarized zone..." The purposeful ambiguity of the section of text in which this sentence appears cannot disguise the fact that Humphrey, like Johnson, demands crucial concessions from the North Vietnamese...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Tricky Hubie | 10/2/1968 | See Source »

...complete bombing halt. "As President I would stop the bombing of the North as a risk of key importance," said Humphrey...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: Stop the Bombing Says Humphrey | 10/1/1968 | See Source »

...Americanization of the war and an increase in the load of fighting carried on by the Army of South Vietnam. In explaining this point which he said would be "possible next year," Humphrey stated, "I would take the risk....I would move towards a de-Americanization...

Author: By Ronald H. Janis, | Title: Stop the Bombing Says Humphrey | 10/1/1968 | See Source »

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