Word: risks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fegenbush is one of the oldest "blue babies" known to medicine. Blue babies rarely live beyond twelve unless an operation corrects a congenital defect: a too-small opening in the pulmonary artery that carries blood from the heart to the lungs. One day last week Don decided to risk the operation devised by Johns Hopkins' Surgeon Alfred Blalock (TIME...
Mackenzie King would not say, in so many words, "I resign." He could not risk spending seven months as a lame duck. He 'could not forget that some crisis might keep him in office. But barring the unforeseeable, Mackenzie King would shortly lay down his stewardship...
Sport fans had their choice of 19 events, in which contestants from 31 nations would risk their necks and their reputations on skates, ski jumps and the perilous Cresta Run toboggan course. The experts were betting on Switzerland to win its first winter Olympics (Norway has won three, the U.S. one). More people would see the ice hockey and figure skating than anything else: a guest could watch them from his hotel balcony, highball in hand...
Thomas W. Phelps, a partner in Francis I. du Pont & Co. and one of Wall Street's leading exponents of the famed Dow theory, voiced the most prevalent view. Said Tom Phelps: "Many Americans, despite their dislike of Communism, lack enough faith in capitalism to risk their money on its ability to produce sustained prosperity. Many others . . . lack not faith but cash to buy stocks after paying record high taxes and living costs. [As a result] the stockmarket remains the only uninflated segment of our economy...
...should like, at the risk of being considered an "old-style language teacher" [TIME, Dec. 29], to point out that opposition to the Army method comes from those of us who accept the Harvard Committee's definition of general education's aims (i.e., "to think effectively, to communicate thought, to make relevant judgments, to discriminate among values"), and who fail to see how the mechanical parroting of sounds contributes to the achievement of these aims. . . . It is to the Army's credit that it saw its objectives clearly and went about accomplishing them in the most direct...