Word: risking
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Nationalist military men on Formosa last week thought the island could resist the Reds indefinitely without outside help. The only possible source of such help was the U.S. which, if it wanted to, could deny Formosa to the Communists at little risk to itself. By helping the Nationalists hold Formosa, the U.S. could help thwart further Communist expansion in Asia, at the same time acquire an important base in its Pacific security system. But as of last week, the U.S. did not seem interested...
...best friends, I find that two or three of them are Jews . . . I am their friend because between us there exists the human relationship of love. We need the courage to love. Hate stems from a sluggishness of the heart; it is cheap and easy. Love is always a risk, but only a risk brings victory...
Neither Harvard nor any other university can afford to have students shy away from the controversial questions of the day. Education verges on the meaningless if a student feels he is taking a personal risk when he seeks to listen to, understand, and grapple with troublesome ideas. University officials, in statements made over the years, have shown that Harvard understands this principle. If the principle is to stand, the University now must use all the power at its command to end these interferences with free inquiry made in the name of loyalty. It would be pointless, and harmful to military...
General Douglas MacArthur reportedly favored some kind of U.S. action to support Formosa, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff seemed convinced that the move was neither an acceptable risk nor practically possible. In fact, if Senator Smith was to get anywhere with his suggestion for action, his first and most difficult task would be to convince the military, which seemed as ready as the diplomats to go on waiting for the dust to settle, no matter what was buried under...
Such proceedings suggest that the individual who voluntarily offers himself as a guinea pig for the social science pollster be precisely advised, at all times, of the risk he assumes. All realistic persons know that we live in an age of Loyalty Commissions and Congressional Investigations: letter carriers are fired for subscribing to "New Masses" and Navy Yard workers are dismissed for possessing Howard Fast's "Freedom Road." Any "scientist" who would investigate people's political, social, sexual, or religious attitudes and values owes a duty to the privacy and dignity of the people he questions. That duty...