Word: dares
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...petitioners, I dare venture, do not all have very intimate knowledge of Mr. Hicks's "teaching ability," but are more probably "liberals" of the sort whose hearts throb and cheeks flush at the thought of the persecuted communist, and who are enamored of the heroic and dangerous elements in a position which they are unable to defend logically, and which they would be too timid to defend outside of academic spheres...
...Green, Padway & Friends dare to take that risk, William Green explained when his amendments were introduced in the House last month...
Ambassador James W. Gerard after his recall from Germany in 1917: "The Foreign Minister of Germany once said to me: 'Your country does not dare to do anything against Germany, because we have in your country 500,000 German reservists who will rise in arms against your Government if you dare to make a move against Germany.' Well, I told him that that might be so, but that we had 501,000 lamp posts in this country, and that that was where the reservists would be hanging the day after they tried to rise...
...whether it is the Chamberlain or Hitler kind. Last week it looked more like the Hitler kind when the head of the Federal Reserve Board, Marriner Eccles (the New Deal's prime advocate of spending for recovery), appeared before a Senate committee and gave Congress a lusty double dare. He challenged it to try economy. Said...
...victory was otherwise impressive. Starting as a nobody who became head of the seriocomic Demagogs' Club in the House, Martin Dies had been built up by Franklin Roosevelt's enemies to the point where even critics of noisy Mr. Dies and friends of Mr. Roosevelt did not dare vote against the former. From an obscure eight-year man in the House, with more of Washington's shoe-polish than of Texas' alkali on his boots. Martin Dies had, with all his unfairness as a prosecutor and ineptitude as an investigator, become the Opposition's favorite...