Word: staking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Spain as a reporter in the winter of 1936. As an "independent witness" he hoped to use his poetry to convey what he believed to be the meaning of the Fascist-Anti-Fascist struggle, in which he saw the fundamental moral issues of liberty, equality and justice at stake...
...like olive oil and apple juice on Saturday when the Spagnola brothers face each other Larry is Harvard's starting center and sibling rival John a star receiver for Yale. Luckily the two will not be on the field at the same time with the Ivy Championship at stake...
...devoted themselves in an insane ordeal spanning months for the sake of fifteen minutes of time in a curtained booth. After the intensity of commitment to that ordeal by the candidates and their followers, perhaps the voters should have suspected, more than they did, that something important was at stake...
...there is a great deal of evidence that Kissinger is not really interested in majority rule, or in ending violence. In fact, he openly stated his main concern before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee last May, just before the first of his meetings with Vorster: "We have a stake....in not having the whole continent become radical and move in a direction that is incompatible with Western interests. That is the issue...
...single individual. It would be bigger than the torchlight parades he organized for JFK and LBJ. The mayor is no Carter fanatic, but he needs a Carter victory to help carry his gubernatorial candidate, Michael J. Howlett, into office. So for Daley, control of the state is at stake; control means patronage, and patronage is power...