Word: dare
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Clearly, the council does not merit its claim to legitimacy. The interests of the majority of students are not being represented, but rather subverted. Unfortunately, the administration would not dare to summarily dismiss the council. But we should be able to. I believe that a vote is in order...
...Perspective's president's comments are not based on any fact whatsoever. In fact, I dare say that he did not even bother to read the first or second issues before issuing his criticism...
...producer for Geraldo! and Entertainment Tonight before Simon & Schuster hired her to revitalize their Pocket Books division. "I didn't come up the traditional way, but I paid my dues," she says. "I am a maverick, and people can't stand other people's success. How dare I appear to have it all? Believe me, it is just an appearance. I'd trade places with just about anybody at this point...
...dramatically in June ((when)) the Security Council unwisely made ((Aidid's)) capture and trial an essential part of the mission." But back in June, while warning of a potential quagmire, the Times said, "Threatening General Aidid with arrest seems a minimal way of expressing international condemnation." And "Mr. Clinton dare not flinch . . . If the world's might cannot prevail against a Somali warlord, then what hope is there for collective security...
...years by a scholarly brother-in-law who pulls out a gun. Fichtner sinks into a chair, stares defiantly everywhere else and finally at his accuser, then thrusts his head forward straight into the barrel of the weapon. He conveys in the same swift deed a last spasm of dare-you defiance and a willing embrace of an end to his own pain. Although almost everything in Timothy Mason's stylistically messy melodrama has the power to surprise, nothing else comes close to that startling glimpse into a lost soul...