Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Spend time, not money." There is no better investment in a day when children are often better educated than their parents, or at least schooled in a far different intellectual vocabulary. Unless parents deliberately verse themselves in the new art, books, films, music and mores assailing their kids, they risk being stamped as unspeakable-to-squares...
...colonels, already concerned about public reaction to their capitulation over Cyprus, were unwilling to risk a showdown that would exacerbate their strained relations with Greece's conservatives. Rather than arrest the publishers, the junta offered a compromise: if the newspapers would run the regime's attack on Karamanlis on the main news page, they could run Karamanlis' attack on the junta on an inside page. All eight Athens papers agreed, and Greek readers thereupon had the unusual experience of reading the first criticism of the junta since it seized power on April...
...next move is up to the country's young monarch. So far, though disapproving of the junta, King Constantine, 27, has gone along with the coup in hopes of influencing the colonels some day to hand back control to civilians. Does he now feel strong enough to risk his crown by openly defying them? And if he tries to replace them, would the colonels go quietly or fight to retain power? The junta is, after all, tough, dedicated and still convinced that it has acted in the best interests of Greece. The one thing that appears certain is that...
...Ninety-two per cent said that the statement, "Americans who disagree with the Administration's policy should not refrain from speaking out even at the risk of undermining the morale of our own troops and encouraging the enemy," came closest to their view...
Unfortunately for Smith, Hemery will probably not even run in the 40-yard high hurdles tonight. Plagued by a leg injury which has persisted since last season, it is doubtful that he will risk irritating the injury on the hurdle course...