Word: dared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slamming samurai has foiled the villain and won his lady love (Kuniko Ikawa), do they leap into each other's arms? Not at all. The hero rides sadly away, and the sound track sings to the heroine: "Your hawk has flown away . . ./ The bold, dark bird that dare not dwell by your side/ That fears no enemy, nor pain, nor danger/ Yet dreads the wound of the shining sword of love." Tennyson would have loved...
...striped pajamas, was pacing his third-floor bedroom. Suddenly, through the sultry night, Diem heard the clatter of machine-gun fire, the cries of wounded men. In the next instant, half a dozen mortar shells exploded beneath Ngo Dinh Diem's open window. "We never believed they would dare attack us!" said one of Diem's aides, aghast. But on Diem's shabby desk in Freedom Palace lay the confirmation: "All South Viet Nam will be put to blood and fire," an ultimatum read, "unless you consent to our demands...
...opera score on the piano ("I shall compose the music, and you will write it down," he told Kubizek, and so it went for several days and nights, until Hitler abruptly quit). For years he was in love with a girl named Stefanie, but he did not dare speak to her. Like the hero of some romantic novel, he worshiped from afar-but managed to persuade himself that Stefanie was madly in love with...
Since all parties are condemned to being permanent minorities, they dare not alienate the special groups on which they chiefly depend. Socialists must always demand more favors for civil servants, and Independents always refuse any reform of the farm support system. The M.R.P...
...went home an also-ran. Last week the pretty premedical student from Radcliffe College seemed to dare the same accident to happen again. Flip she did-to perfection. She whirled through all her other maneuvers with the same precise skill. For the second time in three years Tenley Albright, who kept on skating despite an attack of polio in 1946, took the title to the U.S. In second place: New York's Carol Heiss...