Word: dare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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According to Colonel Ott. the Japanese ought to be glad that these German officers have not been replaced by Soviet military experts, and anyhow the German Republic which preceded the Nazis unfortunately gave up the extraterritorial rights of Germans in China. Therefore, perspired Colonel Ott, the Nazis today dare not antagonize the Chinese who could turn around and crack down in their native courts upon Germans any day-whereas U. S., British, French and Japanese citizens in China still are protected by their precious "extraterritorial rights...
...Marlene Dietrich flutters her eyelashes twice before each line about love and once when her feeling is marital fidelity. Her make-up is so sharpened it makes her look gaunt, but nothing can keep her from looking lovely, and she can still be beautiful in clothes nobody else would dare to wear...
...Park, Ill. and Kansas City dropped like a hot potato a book of which Professor Tugwell was coauthor, Our Economic Society and Its Problems, and its sales have fallen off one-third, according to Harcourt, Brace, its publishers. There are fighting words, especially in the South, that a textbook dare not use. To please North and South, publishers get out books on "evolution" but do not use that word, speak of "development." The Texas textbook committee once refused to approve a biography of Thomas A. Edison lest they be attacked by a Fundamentalist Baptist, Rev. J. Frank Norris, who hated...
...China to give Japan black eyes by supplying bombing planes flown to Nanking from Soviet Siberia and from French Indo-China. These ships this week were bombing Japanese positions not only at Shanghai but in North China, and every patriotic Chinese itched for the day when they will actually dare to fly over and for the first time in history bomb Japanese towns and cities...
...many believe, is trying to buy his way into politics, is bound to be no ordinary fray. Each man has demanded the removal of the other, with aspersions on character and integrity freely cast. Each man has defied the other, and each has taken up the other's dare. The courts have reversed the decision of the racing commission, but this made no difference, since neither of the two men were at all inclined to pay any attention to the courts' decisions. And finally there came the entirely unwarranted declaration of martial law, with all its ugly odor of disrespect...