Word: dare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Buoyant with faith, the soft-voiced 68-year-oldster opened the convention last week by crying to his disciples: "For every hundred delegates here assembled today a million prayers go up to the God of Justice that our efforts in this convention may not tail. We dare not fail. Our Plan is the sole id only hope of a confused and distracted nation. We have become an avalanche ol political power that no derision, no ridicule, no conspiracy of silence can stem...
...What legislator would dare strike this blow against property rights? In what adventure would a truly Republican government become involved which dared violate the most essential liberty...
...Richard Gay stepped out last week as a Public Figure. In a speech before a Manhattan meeting of the American Management Association he took a bold grasp of a nettled question which few politicians-let alone the head of the biggest and most volatile U. S. stock exchange-would dare to handle on a public rostrum. Said...
Interest in this apparatus was aroused by cryptic articles appearing in several newspapers, which declared that Marconi and his 'micro-wave' machine will soon be on the African frontier, ready to frustrate dusky aviators as soon as they dare leave the ground, and force their bare feet back to mother earth...
...become accustomed to the strange passions that periodically seized his father. During a quiet dinner the boy would be startled to observe Lucien Guitry frown fiercely, cry out for no reason such things as, "My lord, you are a nobleman and I am but a commoner, yet I dare tell you that any man who insults a woman is a coward!" Or. with a melting tenderness, the father would stare unseeingly at his son and murmur, "Clementine, I would give my life for a kiss from your lips!" Lucien Guitry, who later acted opposite Sarah Bernhardt, was merely going over...