Word: risks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vermont, and Tom Davis, age 27, and the president of a lumber company are not typical of the young men living in the ski country around the Twin State Valley area of Vermont and New Hampshire. Both are young, married, college graduates, ambitious-and willing to take a financial risk...
...risk that Red China might then intervene, Nixon said he did not believe that it would. But, he added, "we must recognize that they might. My answer is that this is the time to take that risk. Time is not on our side, but on China's side. Every day that passes, China's nuclear capability increases. Five years, ten years-we might not be able to make a stand there, or any place else, without risking nuclear world...
...industrial installations so as to let them know, in Wheeler's words, that "they have to pay a price for their activities." The Joint Chiefs realize that such action might bring the Communist Chinese into even more active participation in the Vietnamese conflict-but that is a risk they are willing to run. President Johnson and Secretary McNamara obviously disagree with them...
...today's rulers seem, in comparison, faceless and mediocre. Churchill was an aristocrat, a brilliant dilettante, a creator in a dozen roles and garbs. He was a specialist in nothing-except courage, imagination, intelligence. He was never afraid to lead, and he knew that a leader must sometimes risk failure and disapproval rather than seek universal acclaim. He had been, as Denis Brogan put it, "everything but the Archbishop of Canterbury"-and he often seemed more confident than any archbishop that he had the ear of God and was watched over with solicitude by angels...
...neither the aid nor the continuing private investment it needs unless he makes a fair settlement soon. In private negotiations, he has proposed a deal that would give Peru the oil lands but allow the company to stay with a profitable operating contract-a compromise under which he would risk damage to his image as a champion of Peruvian nationalism...