Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...withdrawal, but you must remember that to support withdrawal could be construed as a capital offense under the [South African] Terrorism Act. It's a political position that white liberals wouldn't even contemplate inside the country. Some who would like to see sanctions would never be able to risk saying that in public. While still in the country I myself had to avoid taking a public position on divestment--otherwise I knew I would get chopped. But I favored divestment, and all other kinds of pressure, from the morning we heard of Steve Biko's death...
...These changes are being made to provide more flexibility in dining while minimizing the risk of spread," Archie C. Epps III, dean of students, said yesterday...
...summer of 1977, Newton figured that the political climate had mellowed enough for him to risk coming home. Three months later, the Panther Party was back in the police news. One night in October, three heavily armed men, dressed in dark blue jumpsuits and wearing black ski masks and gloves, started shooting through the door of a home in Richmond, Calif. The occupant, a black woman named Mary Matthews, 56, fired back with the .38-cal. revolver she kept by her bed. One man fell, killed by a burst of machine-gun fire-from behind. The two others fled...
...increasing number of hysterectomies, in which the cervix is usually removed. The true efficacy of the test is also clouded by the fact that though half the adult women in the U.S. have Pap smears annually, relatively few of the tests are on women who run the highest risk of developing cervical cancer. The disease is most prevalent among women in low-income groups, as well as those who begin having sex at an early age and have multiple sex partners...
...first, none of Roots' creators wanted to risk such comparisons. "We had at least six lengthy discussions about whether or not to do a sequel," recalls Alex Haley, the man whose genealogical search launched the whole Roots phenomenon. "Our initial feelings were negative. We felt the other did so well that we should just let it hang up there. Then, very gradually, it began to come together. Someone would ask me about stories I had, so I told them about Sister Carrie or Aunt Liz, and then some more...