Word: dared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish to deal with reasonable men, so you'll have to deal with madmen," said one of the Istiqlal leaders when the French arrested him. Madmen were soon on the warpath. In the teeming bidonvilles, where few Frenchmen dare enter, veiled women made grenades. Their menfolk banded together in terrorist societies-the Black Crescent, Black Hand, and many others. Egged on by the mullahs and by the Voice of the Arabs, a Cairo propaganda station supported by the Egyptian government, young Moslem fanatics began bombing French stores, derailing trains and stabbing French civilians. In 1954, the long knives...
Bring the schools back to the local level and do away with laws. I double-dog dare the Supreme Court or the Federal Government to tell us we have violated a law if there is no law, nothing but a social custom ... If God had wanted another plan for the races, He would have done a better job than those nine nincompoops on the Supreme Court...
...than 200 ships, the mightiest yet assembled by the Japanese. Proud in the van rode the powerful, fast carrier attack force that had spread destruction from Pearl Harbor to Ceylon. Its bonus of strength, the admirals agreed, was surprise. Its only fear was that the U.S. Navy might not dare come out and fight after the Imperial fleet opened the attack...
...tornado swept across it. After the disaster they went over their data on conditions before the storm and found a "peculiar pattern." Five days later they came to their office, took a look at the day's charts and saw the same weather pattern. They did not dare use the dread word "tornado," but they told key men about their hunch that a tornado was coming. Tinker Field got a forecast of an 80-m.p.h. wind, which ensured all possible precautions. Less than seven hours after the warning, the "pattern" delivered the goods: a tornado that ripped right across...
...they kept up their march, unmolested by the police, the Catholics sensed that they had won the day; they were so numerous and so united that Perón & Co. did not dare to try force against them...