Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Expedient Risk...
...your article on the swearing-in of Clark McAdams Clifford [March 8], you stated that the "situation of U.S. troops" in Viet Nam is "dangerously exposed" owing to the need for more men, You also suggested, however, that a call for sizable reinforcements would be a "political risk" for the President. Does this mean to say that the man who is risking the lives of more than 500,000 of our boys in Viet Nam is unwilling to risk his own political life by taking a necessary action? If this is a just war, then let us fight it unreservedly...
Both were compelling truths. It has always been a question of when, not whether, the Senator would attempt a Kennedy restoration. Until very recently, it seemed that he would bide his time until 1972. The tradition of party loyalty, the immense difficulty of unmaking a President, the risk to the unmaker, the fact that he is only 42, the knowledge that many Democrats who would be happy to support him later would oppose him now-all these factors militated against a Kennedy move in 1968. His strategy all along had been to take a position slightly to the left...
...Lees, 44. "You can have lots of them for friends as long as your music isn't being performed more than theirs." So popular is his music these days at concerts of the Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit symphonies and a host of lesser orchestras, that Lees runs the risk of never again getting a friend ly greeting from any of his colleagues...
...dollars at the $35-an-ounce price. But "mercantile" gold-that which is bought by speculators and industrial users-would be left free to seek its own price. The advantage of the system is that the open-market price might very well drop low enough to finally put some risk into speculating. Up to now, with the U.S. maintaining a bottom on prices, the trading has been a heads-I-win, tails-you-lose proposition in favor of the gold buyers. One disadvantage of the plan, however, could be a temptation among smaller central banks to buy gold officially...