Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent weeks had seized millions of South Vietnamese soldiers and civilians in their headlong flight from northern provinces. Even to suggest that the government of President Nguyen Van Thieu would finally have to stand on its own without further injections of massive U.S. military aid would be to risk the outrage of South Vietnamese troops and increasingly anti-American civilians. That could produce what high U.S. officials termed "nightmarish possibilities." By this they meant a final Viet Nam horror of American troops' having to fight their way into South Viet Nam against the dual firepower of both the once friendly...
...Vietnamese politicians and foreign observers believe, they are unlikely to press for their maximum objective even if they score a complete military victory. The areas that remain under Saigon's control are traditionally the most strongly anti-Communist regions of Viet Nam. Hanoi and the P.R.G. will probably not risk pressing immediately for a system of government that would outrage hundreds of thousands of people. The Communists in fact might legitimately fear a reversal of the past 20 years: former Saigon supporters harassing a Communist government much as Communist guerrillas used to harass Saigon. As one Hungarian official...
...Charles Porter of Oregon 17 items from his file, including a report on his attendance at a 1968 meeting of the Congress of Racial Equality in Oakland, Calif. Asks Porter: "What the hell does that have to do with the CIA? They're treating me like a security risk...
...REOPENING THE SUEZ CANAL. There is a [security] problem, but to show my peaceful intentions and to ease the situation for our friends all over the world-Western Europe, Africa and Asia-for world prosperity and for our own benefit, I am ready to take this risk and protect the canal. According to the Constantinople Treaty of 1888, if there is a state of belligerency between Egypt and any other country, that country is not permitted to use the canal. Even if [the Israelis] ask for their cargoes to pass through in other flagships, we have the full legal right...
...carried the green and almost landed out of play in the azaleas behind. The wind had died. It takes a 195-yd. hit, often with a one-iron, to carry the front bunker. The green is so big you've got to hit directly to the pin or risk three putts...