Word: risked
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...under savage and provocative Russian pressure in Berlin, the U.S. refused to abandon Europe's helpless peoples. With that decision, the U.S. accepted the risk of war. Major General William H. Tunner's airlift blazed a roaring, dramatic demonstration of U.S. determination across Europe's troubled skies. Not only to Berliners but to the world, the Berlin airlift was the symbol of the year: the U.S. meant business...
...SUBTLE BLASPHEMIES IN SILVER-If you'd rather die than give something dull, the schizophrenic stuff we call jewelry will save your worthless life . . . Don't risk a crestfallen Christmas...
...Grays, Wigglesworth, and the outside dormitories, all of whose men enter Houses, will be reoccupied at a deconverted figure. Where only one member of such a crowded room moves to a House, his roommates can guarantee themselves the additional space by paying the higher rate. "Otherwise they run the risk that we will fill the vacancy," Watson said...
Russian scientists, like Russian artists, must toe the party line. Soviet biologists who disagree with the scientifically naive theories of T. D. Lysenko, Communism's pet geneticist, run the risk of being "disciplined." The penalty for arguing is demotion, imprisonment or worse (TIME, Sept. 6). Economists and statisticians who have deviated from the official line have also suffered. But until recently, Russian physicists were left alone. The Soviet Union, struggling desperately to make an atomic bomb, needed all its physicists...
...short life, the monthly had burned up $800,000 invested by Backers Harold Talbott, Jack Chrysler, Angier Biddle Duke, Joe Uihlein Jr. (Schlitzbeer) and others. To keep going, Kaleidoscope needed another $1,400,000, and nobody wanted to risk that much. Explained Publisher William Husted: "There's a falling market in the fashion industry right now ... and we just didn't get enough advertising." (From 172 pages of ads in October, sales had dropped to 56 in November, only 22½ in December...