Word: dare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...General promised better rules for fixing prices and determining costs; more uniform rules for working hours and wages; more adequate code representation for labor and consumers; stricter enforce ment of code provisions. Did anyone dare to suggest that NRA had not employed as many people as promised? He had promised, roared the General, that the program would make 3,000,000 new jobs and it had. Had NRA failed to increase consumer purchasing power? He had upped annual payrolls by three billion dollars while the cost of living had remained almost stationary. Had NRA been put across by "ballyhoo...
...swelling bosom standing before the huge and hungry lion of Public Opinion while a placard announced "General Johnson will positively put his head in the Lion's mouth." Another had the General standing back to back with a jackass ("Great American Kicker"), and urging "Go on kick, I dare ya to!" A third had the embattled General surrounded with snowballs, brickbats and dead cats, belligerently challenging all comers: "Come on! Let's see y'u throw something...
...have participated. America has been made familiar with government by edict. Is it now to be subjected to 'government by insult?' The episode is of importance in relation to the constantly growing tendencies of the Roosevelt Administration to resent criticism, however fair, and to slander all who dare cross the path of its policies. . . . We hope that Mr. Roosevelt will see fit to apologize to the Press of the nation for this gross insult...
...mother was a lady like yours you will allow, And you may have a sister who needs protection now- I've come to this great city to find a brother dear- And you wouldn't dare insult me, Sir, If Jack were only here...
...gets his bullet when he is stumbling across the sand with his clothes torn like a prophet's, carrying a cross. Morelli is killed trying to drag him back to safety. The sergeant has the machine gun and when the Arabs, veiled like ghosts, at last dare to come creeping over a ridge of sand toward the oasis, he sits up in the grave he has dug for himself, rakes them all down. He is chuckling at their corpses when the rescue party comes...