Word: staking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...race and culture, tearing at the five boroughs of what had always been regarded as the most liberal, tolerant and cosmopolitan city in America. "If it were just a labor dispute," said an aide to the Mayor, "that would be one thing. But there's far more at stake. New York could be the greatest tinderbox in the world...
...more than the career of John Lindsay-or even the stability of the nation's largest city-was at stake. The same forces of race and poverty, fear and instability that transfix New York now are present in scores of other U.S. cities, large and small. New York contains all the elements that are directing the course of the 1968 election cam paign. New Yorkers' concern with the quality of life, with impersonal or unresponsive organizations, with law and order-all these are national issues. Historically, New York is a pattern setter. If it should prove ungovernable...
Rangy John Heyburn has hovered around the seventh position all season and will be bidding to stake out a definite slot for himself before the team is cut to seven for the last three meets...
Last week's events escalated the incident over Eldridge Cleaver's course to the level that many liberal Californians have feared for several weeks now. The future of the University and the outcome of the Cranston-Rafferty Senatorial battle are now at stake...
...maneuver was accomplished through an unprecedented joint assault by the government's two largest industrial complexes, ENI and I.R.I., which between them have substantial interests in 275 firms and control all or most of Italy's steel, oil, shipbuilding, aviation and banking. The government's new stake in "Montedison," whose sales exceed $2 billion, puts it in command of about one-fourth of Italian industry...