Word: dare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...engagement with the delegation and demanded the conference be postponed whereas Leader Donovan demanded and got an immediate hearing. Result: Mrs. Luke was reinstated. Then the General's pent-up feelings overflowed in a flood of Johnsonese. Regardless of consequences he did what few people thought he would dare do, and dismissed Leader Donovan for being "inefficient, insubordinate and absent from duty without leave." Said the NRA union: "In order to build a case, Donovan's immediate superior, Gustav Peck, was called in to allege in efficiency. Peck said Donovan was A. W. O. L. two days-last...
...managers grow obstreperous. When inventories pile as high as they did in 1929 a depression follows. When they pile as high as they did last summer a "recession" is the aftermath. There are innumerable theories (generally monetary or social) to explain why buyers rarely outnumber sellers but few economists dare ignore the storm warnings of mounting stocks. By last week it was clear that ever since April 1 inventories have been accumulating at a more alarming rate than at any time during the past year...
...buttoned himself into a Field Marshal's uniform and ascended his throne. Japan, which was the first and, so far as the world knew until last week, the last power to recognize his puppet government (TIME, Sept. 26, 1932), sent official congratulations. The League of Nations did not dare punish Japan directly for its invasion of Manchuria, but on the strength of the Lytton report it did pass a resolution binding all League members not to recognize Manchukuo...
...luckless first year man agreed to sign a contract to have forty pieces pressed during the year. Not for a while did he realize his mistake. Then he discovered that having only one suit to his name, he would be unable to sent it out. He didn't dare try out his pink pajamas on Professor Merriman, having heard of the latter's strict ideas about comportment...
Francis Bacon wrote long ago: "Judges ought to remember that their office is 'jus dicere,' and not 'jus dare...', while the Apostle Timothy once said of higher matters: "Nos scimus quia lex bona est, modo quis ea utatur legitime...