Word: risks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...study in modern neuroses, at its worst the book is only a variation on the case histories in Freudian source books. Again, as with the first volume of his tetralogy, publishers in the East refused to touch the book, leaving Idaho's Caxton Printers to take a moral risk somewhat akin to that taken by the publishers of Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover...
Since the existing War debts of $12,779,000,000 would be scaled down to $7,284,000,000 under the principle advocated by Hungary, both the State Department and the Treasury cautiously shied away from endorsing it. Neither Republican nor Democratic leaders were yet ready to risk saying that a dollar in hand was worth two in the bush. Rumbled Idaho's William Edgar Borah: "I am utterly opposed to any further compromise. If Hungary stood absolutely alone, my feeling would be entirely different...
...three-hour flight from Luga, south of Leningrad, their gasoline was exhausted and they had just got across the frontier. They told that Joseph Stalin was purging the Red Air Force, that hundreds of Soviet military pilots had mysteriously vanished in Russia, that they had chosen the desperate risk of flight...
...race-conscious exponents of pure blood and in these respects resemble Jews. No more provocative suggestions could have been made in Germany, but Pastor Niemoller continued his sermon by shouting: "Positive Christianity, which the Jewish people wanted, clashed with Negative Christianity as Jesus himself represented it! . . . Friends, can we risk going with our nation without forgiveness of sins, without that so-called Negative Christianity which, when all is said and done, clings in repentance and faith to Jesus as the Savior of sinners? I cannot and you cannot and OUR NATION CANNOT! 'Come, let us return unto the Lord...
...person who is a member of three or more organizations. C. More important than the size of income is its regularity and the nature of the occupation of a man for whom a girl sets her cap. The girl who has worked before marriage is a much better risk than one who has not. A teacher or skilled office worker is likely to make a good wife. But swains should shun the girl who has changed jobs frequently...