Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week's end Humphrey motorcades had accounted for two dogs and a pig. Termites fell into the wine during a Congolese banquet, and his entourage brushed their teeth with beer rather than risk the water. Humphrey handed out tickets to the U.S. Senate gallery to Liberian youngsters and implied in Kinshasa that he would seek a second vice-presidential term, promising Congolese President Joseph D. Mobutu to wear a leopard-skin cap on the campaign trail...
...claimed that a U.S. bomb had hit a barge only six feet from the Soviet freighter Pereslavl-Zalessky, moored in the city's harbor, severely damaging the Russian ship. The U.S. State Department apologized, but it noted that it had warned that ships entering Haiphong harbor ran the risk of damage despite the best efforts of U.S. pilots to prevent such incidents...
...Lower East Side, is a honeycomb of workshops intended to serve both experienced and fledgling actors, and would-be playwrights and directors. The goal of the ensemble's activity is to speak to Negro audiences in a Negro idiom about the Negro situation-even at the risk of encouraging a kind of cultural separatism. "We've been very loose as far as ideological manifestoes go," says Ward, "but we are Negro oriented and we don't apologize for that." The ensemble has distributed posters to beauty parlors, barbershops and small retailers in Harlem and Newark, offered tickets...
...Guaranty Trust Co. "This turn hurts, but those most affected understand the compelling reasons." Complaining that "the fundamental cause of our deficits is Government spending abroad at twice the rate that the private sector can create surpluses," Chairman Ward Keener of B. F. Goodrich argued that compulsory investment controls risk "permanently weakening the American industrial structure." Grumbled United Fruit President John Fox: "The whole thing is very unfair, both to companies and to the countries. Washington always works the business community over first...
This is a book about a "good" Nazi. Dr. Gerhard Wolf saved many lives at the risk of his own, and he failed to invoke the regime's machinery of terror although his duty demanded...