Word: risks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Lally emphasized that this is the last time a College operated parking space plan will be held out to car owners this year. If it falls through, the project will be abandoned until next fall, and students will run the risk of having their autos towed away or having them ticketed during the spring term...
...world leadership might return in the long run, they would not be reaped until the hold of want and oppression on the world's throat was broken. The country's decision to break it was the vastest gamble in peacetime history. George Marshall's estimate-"calculated risk"-meant in soldier's language that it could be won, if all went well, if the most powerful nation in the world threw all its physical and moral strength into the fight...
...North African invasion, Stimson supported it once it was launched. When Wendell Willkie was preparing to go on the air to attack the Eisenhower-Darlan agreement, Stimson grabbed for his telephone. "I told him flatly that if he criticized the Darlan agreement at this juncture he would run the risk of jeopardizing the success of the United States Army in North Africa and would be rendering its task very much more difficult...
...reason for the cautious steps was plain. Despite the hullabaloo over inflation, many a businessman knew that the threat of a recession is very real. No one wanted to swing the club on credit and risk killing the boom...
...sign a negotiated peace with Hitler, so that Germany and Russia could kill each other off. In China, she now wants the U.S. to commit itself to intervention if necessary, "to challenge Russia in the interests of peace and freedom while she is still too weak to dare risk war with us." Like Governor Dewey, she finds it hard to understand a State Department that says so-far-and-no-further to Communism in Europe, while by neutrality in China it is helping Communism to destroy our Pacific ally. Chiang Kai-shek's government is admittedly ugly and confused...