Word: risked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...frightening to think that supposedly intelligent leaders of our country are willing (Bishop Sheen) to pull out of Viet Nam altogether and risk a terrible bloodbath [Aug. 11]. Others (Sherman Cooper and Stuart Symington) want to halt the bombing. They must have forgotten that we have stopped the bombing and fighting at several intervals and with no results. Such thinking only prolongs the war or brings negotiations that favor the enemy...
...have been able to stock pile materiel in the open until it could be trucked southward at night into the hands of the Viet Cong (see cover sto ry). "Now they will have a longer run to make," observed Air Force Brigadier General J. M. Philpott, "and a new risk element...
Pentagon officials maintained there was little risk of accidental intrusions into the Red homeland. Development of improved communications, navigational and radar equipment has greatly reduced the chances of U.S. supersonic jets straying over the border, they said...
...territory. So close were the targets that in a matter of seconds the supersonic jets could have crossed into China. The President finally accepted the tactic of having the planes come in parallel to the border-but only after he was convinced that they would thereby run the least risk from antiaircraft fire. The main concern, however, was with the broader implications. "A bomb near the Chinese border," says the President, "had better have civil authority...
...family and friends were all against another campaign. "I told him not to," says Emil Sr.-and so did most of his friends, who argued that he had nothing to gain, everything to lose. Why risk the chance of going down in yachting annals as the man who finally lost the Cup for the U.S.? But the pressures were strong. For one thing, in 1961 he had become the second member of Jewish ancestry (although he is an Episcopal convert) ever elected to the New York Yacht Club...