Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...alternative in fourth-down situations will be a return to the art of the coffin corner kick, which pins opponents deep in their own territory by sailing the punt out of bounds as close to the goal line as possible. Trapped inside their own ten, a team will not risk an interception by throwing the ball, and will be reduced to grinding yardage out on the ground. Ideally, the defense could then swarm all over the bottled-up offense and force another punt...
Both of the celebrated defendants had gambled that they could pull it off. Instead of remaining silent, as was their right, they would testify in their own behalf-and risk being shaken by the tough cross-examinations that were bound to follow. Last week, when their long hours of testimony were over, John Mitchell, 60, the former U.S. Attorney General, and Maurice Stans, 66, the former Secretary of Commerce, had in a measure won their gamble-though not necessarily their cases. They had indeed been their own best witnesses against the Government's charges that they had plotted...
...then a candidate in a legislative primary."We cannot say it would be illegal", the Herald advised, "but certainly it would be inexcusable of the voters if they sent Pat Tornillo to Tallahassee." Tornillo twice appeared at Herald offices with rebuttals and asked that the paper print them or risk violation of Florida's 1913 right-to-reply statute. Herald editors refused...
...hush money, or whatever else the post-Watergate mind can dream up. And if the firm goes against the library, the community will stay silent, perhaps coming to watch the burial. Sen. Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.), who calls the shots for the Library Corporation, is unlikely to risk any political gallywagging to extricate the library from that messy predicament...
...sought the dissolution of Parliament and called for general elections to be held on May 18. Frustrated by his defeat in the Gair imbroglio and the Senate's long-term obstruction of his program, Whitlam had only one means of gaining control in the Senate-to take the risk of a new election...