Word: dared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Wouldn't Dare." But it was Casey who was shipped out. In 1944 he was back in the minors, managing Milwaukee to an American Association pennant. In 1946 he moved to Oakland and the Pacific Coast League. Back in New York, meanwhile, the New York Yankees were looking for someone to take over from their aging manager, Joe McCarthy. "I know the man," said George Weiss, then Yankee farm system manager. "Get Casey Stengel...
...That comic?"sneered the Yankee owners. "That funnyman? We wouldn't dare bring him to New York...
After one splendiferous night last week, about as many living, breathing citizens remained unaware of Marine Captain Richard S. McCutchen, 28-the first man to dare "The $64,000 Question"-as there are whooping cranes left on the North American continent...
...troubles. "The West has decided that Egypt doesn't count," he grumbled recently. "Therefore, because Egypt is troublesome, they've decided to wreck Egypt and isolate us." Admitting-unlike such neutralists as India's Nehru-that Egypt and the rest of the Middle East dare not remain defenseless against Communist expansionism, Nasser nevertheless disdains any defensive handclasp with the Western powers. "We are suspicious of all the great powers," he insists...
...goods. For a less arrogant, less competitive people, this might have been only a pleasant custom, but for the tribes living an easy life in the mild, rich country between Vancouver and Yakutat Bay, Alaska, the feasts turned into mad giveaway races. Each "gift" was in effect a double dare: to save face, the guest had to reciprocate, usually within a year, with another gift of double the value...