Word: dared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...show in Hollywood, Margaret Truman was led to a drawing board, blindfolded, handed a crayon and asked to connect a series of jumbled lines. When she finished, Jimmy unbandaged her eyes, rotated the board 90°. Margaret's product: "I LIKE IKE." Groaned she: "I don't dare go home tonight...
Everywhere Taft stopped in New Hampshire he drew attentive crowds. But he was abrupt and cold in greeting local leaders, brushed off autograph hunters and handshakers, cut short or sidestepped questioners. He charged that nobody knows what Dwight Eisenhower stands for, inquired slyly whether Ike would dare to attack the Truman Administration. In retrospect, some of Taft's own organization men granted that he offended the New England sense of fairness by insinuating that Ike is a captive of the Administration and could not campaign against it. Many an observer also concluded that his speeches about Ike were...
...would do anything for Pandora, that Witch of Esperanto, that dare-all and do-all of Las Dos Tortugas. A rich playboy killed himself for her. A famous bullfighter killed someone else, or tried to, for her. But these mere men were...
Whether it was to be a truce or more fighting, even the top men in the U.N. command did not seem to know. General James A. Van Fleet guessed aloud that the Communists would not dare to try an offensive this spring. If they did, said he, his forces could stop them: "It would be a good thing if we could get those people out of their foxholes and dugouts, to mow them down the way we did last April and May." But actually, the U.N. command was not so bold. To break through the enemy successfully, they said, they...
...matter how it is applied, the Feinberg Law will corrode the basic freedoms of opinion and expression. Many teachers will not join organizations that they fear have been or will be declared subversive, nor will they dare make statements that wander too far from the orthodoxy of the times. Even if the threat of expulsion is not very great, there is always the possibility of a hearing which is almost as unpleasant. Justice Douglas' dissent, which predicted a vertitable spy system growing up in the New York school system, is not so alarmist as it might appear at first reading...