Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...addition, amnesty is a vital precondition for negotiations on other issues. We cannot negotiate with a sword over our heads. Without amnesty, we run the risk that any formal concessions we win will be short-lived, politically empty and easily betrayed...
...electors would either have to split their votes between the two or not vote at all for one of the offices. For this reason, and because of the hard-dying desire for geographic balance?even in the era of nationwide TV and jet travel?no major party could lightly risk running a one-state ticket...
Exposure of the Choate Club at the Law School raises a number or issues which deserve comment. I realize that any outsider who criticizes a secret society runs the risk of charges of sour grapes; nevertheless I hazard a few disapproving thoughts because I feel strongly that the existence of the Club runs counter to much of what the Law School does, and should, stand...
...automobile dealer whose family had ignited the campaign against them. Once again, they claimed a victory. While the relatives of Nino Petretto, 37, had originally refused to ransom him, in the end they decided that it was wiser to pay the bandits' $8,000 rather than risk his death or mutilation. Many islanders are still anxious to fight the bandits, but they know that they will need outside help to do it. The Italian government has dragged its feet even on appointing a commission that was approved by the Chamber of Deputies in Rome last November to look into...
...have died during treatment and two turned out to have had both major coronary arteries blocked. These two were among twelve who were in cardiogenic shock (almost complete circulatory collapse), a condition that carries a forbidding mortality of 80% or more. But all ten others, even in this worst-risk group, survived...