Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this year I had learned my lesson. Rather than risk discovering new species of seminarus superficialus, I decided to visit my old haunts. Now I sit eagerly with 300 other students and eagerly pen down the gilded words of Professor W****** J***** B**** as he expounds on Samuel Johnson. I am no longer an aspiring Norman Mailer, drifting through classrooms in search of a good fray. Now I'm more like a Philip Roth character, working out my intellectual frustrations alone in my room, the same way Alexander Portnoy allayed his sexual troubles. Harvard encourages intellectual masturbation...
...biggest risk comes at the end of the first act. One of the few things that excites Carlos sexually is seeing someone burned at the stake; his courtiers obligingly find a heretic. Carlos is aroused; from beneath his twenty-foot high royal robes emerges a golden phallus fully ten feet in diameter which extends across the stage at a stately pace until it reaches from side to side as the court sings Handel's Hallelujah Chorus...
Part of the problem is that many Britons do not yet realize quite how serious an economic problem their nation faces. Shops are packed with goods. "That casual visitor looking too intently for scars of crisis on the face of London," observes TIME Correspondent Herman Nickel, "takes the risk of being hit by a Rolls-Royce while crossing Bond Street." Britain has been able to maintain its living standard as high as it has largely because it has borrowed large amounts abroad (about $4 billion) and because Arab oil producers have deposited an estimated $2.5 billion in London...
Willing to risk anything at his age (71), Comedian Bob Hope went to Manhattan's Central Park to tape a special show marking his 25th year on TV. Waving an arm at the thousands of New Yorkers who came to watch the free entertainment, he cracked: "This is the first audience that I've ever played to on grass-that I knew about." In one sketch, Hope and Jackie Gleason dressed up as two Central Park vice-squad members in bosomy drag. Carol Channing, one of the guest stars, asked Hope what would become of his talent...
...Better Risk. Pan Am Chairman William T. Seawell, who is still hoping for Government help, said that he was "heartened" by the measures. While the benefits from the plan would be longrange at best for cash-strapped Pan Am, the package might do just enough to keep the line from going broke in the coming months. Reason: a consortium of 36 banks, led by New York's First National City, is sitting on $205 million in credit that the bankers are ready to release to the company if it looks worthy. They have said that they would advance...