Word: daren
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...results. Teacher Vernon failed to observe a simple fact: the children were terrified. "I was crying when I wrote my essay," said Jean Francis. "So were Lesley Brown, Vicky Weir and Susan Howarth." Complained one mother: "My little girl came home sobbing about an H-bomb. Now she daren't go upstairs in the dark." Jean Francis' father gruffed: "This could upset their whole lives...
...former inmate says of the sighted: "They've kept us alive, but they don't want to bother with us; we're too troublesome. They don't know what to do with us, but they're scared of God, so they daren't quite let us die.'' Yet Bjarnhof's blind also know that they must somehow cross die invisible color line back to the world of the seeing, or else lapse into the shufflers' parade toward "nothingness...