Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whole new element: the assured testimony of the ex-President. In granting Nixon a pardon, Ford made it difficult for the former President to refuse to testify in future Watergate trials by claiming his Fifth Amendment rights against selfincrimination. And when he does testify, Nixon will run the risk of a charge of perjury if he is less than completely truthful...
...return home until a permanent political solution had been worked out. "It is not because we want to impose anything on the Prime Minister," said a high-ranking military man. "But we are the people responsible for the lives of Turkish soldiers and Turkish Cypriots. We cannot take the risk...
...were also surprisingly broad areas of agreement. The experts generally believed that under present conditions prospects for prices and growth are dismal, but not yet desperate. There also was a near consensus that the Government must ease its tight rein on credit if the U.S. is to avoid the risk of a deep recession...
Bankers wanted to invest in Triborough's low-risk bonds or underwrite new bond issues for a quick profit. Moses could help. He could grant premiums to insurance companies, contracts to architects and builders, fees to lawyers. But in return he wanted total support, and he exacted it from all his petitioners...
...were dipping dangerously. Young pursued the lonely caterwauler with the dogged persistence of an insecure gum-shoe, and one cold morning at 3:30 a.m., confronted the youth in his Matthews Hall digs. "I would like to discipline you," Young asserted coolly, "but to do so would be to risk publicizing this case; thousands would flock to your defense, and you would only lose your anonymity." The startled undergraduate thought for a moment, then declared simply, "I will stop...