Word: dared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...real question remained: Had the West awakened too late? Western strategists had to lean on the hope that Russia would not dare to use her military advantage until she had more A-bombs to drop on the U.S. (see BACKGROUND FOR WAR). The strategists, who had understated Russian capabilities before, calculated that the West had approximately two years to finish the job which got under way this week high up in the Waldorf...
...Challenge You." Said Oscar Chapman to poker-faced Andy Schoeppel: "I challenge you and dare you to shed the cloak of immunity and sit here under oath . . . and repeat the speech." Andy Schoeppel calmly blew a smoke screen with his pipe, sat behind it and ducked the challenge...
...shaky French cabinet which is afraid to take vigorous anti-Communist action. It is reliably reported that Schuman hopes the U.S. will twist his arm a bit and force his government to get cracking on rearmament. Without such a display of U.S. pressure, the present French government would not dare to ask for essential defense measures...
...Pendleton, the 1st's postwar training was the most rugged and exacting that any peacetime U.S. outfit got. Explained one Marine officer: "A kid reports for boot camp and we challenge the s.o.b., we dare him to try and be a Marine. We give him so much of that in boot camp-and even flunk some of them out-that when he gets out, he's the proudest damn guy in the world, because he can call himself a United States Marine. He's nothing but a damn private but you'd think...
...made his first speech at lunch, a few hours after his arrival. "Dear brothers and sisters in Christ," he began in his brisk, high voice. "I am going around the U.S. to say thank you, thank you, thank you. But I wish you would dare to send more missionaries to Japan-even lay leaders. I divide my country's 46 provinces into four classes: class A, where we could get 500 converts in a day; class B, where we could get 300 a day; class C, where we could get 200; class D, 100 or less. Only three...