Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Only one problem now remains for Dal Poggetto. Since the general public cannot be let into the storeroom containing the drawings (the space is too confined, the risk of damage too large), he will have to find yet another exit-corridor from the Medici tombs. And for the moment, there seems to be none...
Outlandishly successful pop novelists rarely take the money and run. Against all the nudgings of reason, they insist on plunging once more. The critical risk is great, of course-reviewers and remaindered colleagues are poised to carp. Yet the built-in publicity is there waiting for them, and with it, perhaps, the long-suffering reader...
...Harvard cover pregnancy insurance in their student health plans. A spokesman for Dartmouth, which will begin covering abortions next year, said last week that the university considers abortions roughly equivalent to athletic accidents--they only happen to athletes, and only to people who voluntarily expose themselves to the risk...
...Busch-Reisinger Museum with her orchestra and chorus amassed before her. She bellows out instructions to the soloists on the balcony and all heads turn upward. Rick brings his camera to his eye and is very tempted to shoot while he can see their faces, but he can't risk being heard and ordered out before he has pictures of Caldwell conducting. The camera's click sounds like an explosion to a musician's sensitive ears but Rick heard them warming up and thinks their music makes enough of a racket to conceal...
...creative risk taking," Hall said, "and when you think about it that is what we've done at Harvard...