Word: dared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...production, your staircase will be leveled by the footsteps of visitors." Others were afraid of being accused of exploitation. "Because Poor Peasant Kan Yao-ching once lent grain to Kan Yung-lin, the masses wanted to promote him as a landlord during the reinvestigation. He said: 'I really dare not lend out grain again...
...American colleges must recognize this fact and remember again that the true business of liberal education is greatness. It is our task not to produce 'safe' men, in whom our safety can never in any case lie, but to keep alive in young people the courage to dare to seek the truth, to be free, to establish in them a compelling desire to live greatly and magnanimously, and to give them the knowledge and awareness, the faith and the trained facility to get on with the job. Especially the faith, for as someone has said, the whole world...
...Morte D'Arthur, Launcelot of the Lake hardly ever had a bad day at a tournament. But for Malory, Launcelot did not live just from joust to joust. His chivalrous life was sprinkled with palace romances that would be cover stories in every contemporary magazine from Focus to Dare. In Knights of the Round Table, the movie version of the tale, MGM has all but smothered the knight's rakish inclinations. True, he remains the "champion" to Queen Guinevere, but in the book the word seems to have a greater breadth of meaning...
...Unanimous No. Did Russia dare accept the challenge? Would it gamble its own ambitions in Germany and its desire to crush EDC on a free German election? The Western foreign ministers felt sure that they knew the answer, but they wanted Germany and the rest of the world to hear...
...quadruplicate. Such red tape is in itself a barrier to sales. Customers will often pass up an item they can use rather than wait ten minutes while the clerk fusses with an order book and change. Furthermore, big stores carry so many competing lines of equipment that they hardly dare plug any single brand. Instead of helping a customer to buy, a clerk often merely confuses him with such generalities as "they're all good," without bothering to point out the qualities that might fit a buyer's specific needs...