Word: dared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...behalf of her consumer constituents before the Senate's O'Mahoney subcommittee, she testified: "It is entirely possible that prices were not raised by domestic producers prior to the Suez crisis for the very obvious factor of competition from foreign imports. Perhaps domestic producers didn't dare increase prices for fear they would lose such markets as New England. Obviously these attempts of the domestic-oil producers have been to eliminate the competition of foreign...
...start with, partly cat and partly humans, because Miss Sarton's imagination allows her to take his viewpoint from the start. She knows that though cats can come to have human characteristics by living with people, still cats have their dignity, which human people must regard, especially those who dare write books about cats. Her point seems to be that it's easier for her to be a cat lover than for a cat to be a lover of people...
...world is nothing, the man is all; yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not yet how a globule of sap ascends; in yourself slumbers the whole of Reason; it is for you to know all; it is for you to dare...
...kill and counter-kill began when a nationalist assassin walked into the dining room of the Franco-Moslem club in downtown Algiers on Christmas Day, shot and seriously wounded Mohammed Ait Ali, council president of the Algiers department, and one of the few remaining Arab politicians who dare to show sympathy for the French. Three days later, in broad daylight on Algiers' busy and fashionable Rue Michelet, a nationalist gunman killed 74-year-old Amédée Froger, president of the Federation of Algerian Mayors and a militant leader of the French colons...
...storms raged about their hut; then at last the angry skies cleared, and two more helicopters whirred over the mountain. In three hazardous trips to the Grand Plateau, 13,126 ft. up on the mountain, the helicopters brought down the stranded men, but the pilot decided that he dare not try to land near the two boys who still lay, possibly still alive, abandoned in the wreck of the first helicopter. "I have decided," the air-force chief of rescue operations announced at last, "to cease operations. I cannot take the responsibility of risking more lives...