Word: risked
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Code of Ethics. The ritual of summitry requires that there be one surprise, no matter how mild. This session's package was an agreement of mutual forbearance from nuclear war, which included such points as consulting with each other if there is a risk of war and trying not to provoke confrontations with third countries. In essence, the document formalized practices already followed by both sides, like the Moscow-Washington hot line. But it also amounted to a pact between the two superpowers to cooperate-if not in managing the world, in managing world peace. Thus it applies...
Hollywood studios and national magazines to risk local prosecution in the most restrictive areas...
...military dictatorship moved to complete the transition from monarchy (without a King) to republic (without an elected President). The regime made it clear that any support for deposed King Constantine is now considered treason. Opposition leaders were followed and warned to remain silent about the monarchy, or risk arrest. Some military leaders suspected of lingering royalist sympathy have lost their posts, while others have been arrested. There were reports that some naval officers accused of participation in last month's mutiny attempt (TIME, June 11) were being tortured. Portraits of the King vanished from walls in restaurants and other...
Lover or artist? Neither or both? In the end, Bradley Pearson's designation scarcely matters, for The Black Prince is really the story of all souls who traffic with their demons in order to transcend, sometimes at a terrible risk, the meanness, the dull ness, the lower depths of being human. Blessed are those who live to tell about it, pre-eminently Iris Murdoch...
...Harvard's proposals have failed. And despite the fact that Federally-funded institutions whose affirmative action proposals do not comply with government standards risk loss of Federal grants (about one-third of Harvard's total annual income), all indications are that the University's new and purportedly improved proposal is no more likely to win HEW approval than its forerunners...