Word: risked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...endorse the task force's proposal. It is obvious that the council simply was scared that a department like History and Literature would be flooded with more candidates than available resources could cover, and it therefore felt that it was easier to do nothing rather than to risk the unknown...
Paul is willing to risk certain health hazards in order to take drugs. The biology major "feels things that no straight person will ever experience." He says that drugs have "opened his consciousness" by intensifying his sensual perceptions when he is high, and by making him more "imaginative" and "observant...
...hard on potential terrorists and on P.L.O. sympathizers in the West Bank. The means are not gentle. For example, it has long been government policy to impose communal punishments for individual crimes to discourage terrorist activity. Thus when one member of a family has been caught as a security risk, the house where he lives, perhaps with a mother, father, brother or sister, has been either blown up or, in more recent years, sealed up. Last year seven houses were cemented shut in this fashion. Sometimes curfews are imposed on whole towns for the offenses of a few. In retaliation...
Brown said societies risk losing money on an artistic film when everyone else shows more recent commercial films. He added that the groups can not afford to risk one weekend's earnings. Izkowitz said he has not shown "one film which could be considered bad," since he has "to watch them too." But he added, "People aren't willing to experiment, to broaden their horizons. They come to see Clockwork Orange or Dr. Strangelove, but they won't come to see an earlier Kubrick...
...felt the urge to define Cardinal Medeiros's ecclesiastic integrity, but one look at the bartender told me not to risk it. Tommy had assumed the pained but determined air of a nun who must deal with a wayward child without brooking any resistance. Protestations of innocence were no good anymore, and although physical violence did not seem likely, I thought it best not to remain in such a plainly hostile environment. The subway ride home was more than humiliating; every derelict in the "F" train looked like he was about to approach me with a papal bull of excommunication...