Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that he would support Johnson regardless of the war. He maintained this posture even after Eugene McCarthy challenged Johnson last fall on grounds virtually indistinguishable from Kennedy's. It was then that Kennedy felt a double crunch, from within and from without. To run and lose would be to risk his entire political career. To remain on the sidelines would be to violate his own principles and his pugnacious spirit?and perhaps throw away his future as events passed him by. Already the liberals whom he had so assiduously cultivated were deserting...
...plead his poor people's cause, a plea which the delegates answered with a recommendation that their church donate $100,000 to the march on Washington. They agreed, moreover, to invest 30% of the church's unrestricted funds in housing and business enterprises in low-interest, high-risk areas. In a dramatic effort to invest church services with contemporary relevance, a new communion litany, which may become part of the permanent ritual, was written for the meeting. It was a litany of some relevance to citizens of any religion-or none-in which communicants publicly confessed their civic...
...generally passive. The local chapters of SCLC and CORE have little practical structure. There is no black power movement. Most of the local Negro leaders endorsed McCarthy, with little noticeable effect on their people. The Negroes of Barrington have been intimidated for years. They don't want to risk what they do have. Even McCarthy's proposed guaranteed annual income through a negative income tax was suspect. The people of Barrington work for what they get. They resent it--silently...
GRADUATE STUDENTS traditionally have been cautious in their political activities. They will not risk alienating faculty members whose recommendations could mean the difference between success and failure as a political scientist...
They took the risk. The police entered and created the shock that the demonstrators had not been able to provide by themselves, the force needed to affect the "consciousness" of the majority. Student activists are going to remember this lesson for a long time. Once you get in, it's a bummer to get you out. So will President Kirk, wherever he's going to be in a year...