Word: risks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Quarter. But the rebel cries reached a hysterical pitch. It was clear that if Truman rammed Douglas through, he would risk a final, rending split in the party...
Harry Truman was evidently prepared to take the risk-just as Roosevelt had in forcing Henry Wallace on the 1940 convention. Twice, he called Douglas in Oregon. Douglas asked for 48 hours to make up his mind. He well knew that if he resigned from the Supreme Court, he could never expect to return. A Republican Senate was unlikely to confirm the nomination of a defeated Democrat...
When the Kremlin thinks the "nationalists" have gone too far, it cracks down on them, as it did last week on Maurice Thorez (see below). Tito, however, runs much less risk of Moscow-inspired revolt in his party against his nationalist line. He can enforce his will in his own backyard exactly the way Stalin can enforce his will in the Russian party...
...enthusiasm had bloomed into the American-Indonesian Corp. Its guiding spirit, needless to say, is Matty Fox, who holds 51% of the corporation's voting stock. He will do all the Indonesian government's bulk buying & selling in the U.S. and will try to find U.S. risk capital to build up the islands' mines and industries. Says Dr. Soemitro Djojoadikoesoemo, Indonesian trade commissioner to the U.S. who negotiated the deal: "We need U.S. capital and skill ... We like Matty...
...Berlin mingled many others, in various accents, all saying essentially what the G.I.s were saying in their own way. Said Ernest Bevin in the House of Commons: "None of us can accept surrender." Replied Harold Macmillan, speaking for His Majesty's Most Loyal Opposition: "We must . . . face the risk of war . . . The alternative policy-to shrink from the issue-involves not merely the risk but the almost certainty of war." In Washington, U.S. Secretary of State George Marshall said: "We intend to stay...