Word: dares
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...have not paid tuition should have the effrontery to walk across college campuses, sit in student unions, saunter into classrooms and ask questions of professors [June 25]. What is the matter with them? Don't they know they can't get a degree that way? How dare these beatniks question the very purpose of a university! (Next, they'll be challenging the worth of grades.) How dare they dawdle away precious years in the idle pursuit of understanding and self-knowledge, when out in the world there is profit to be made...
...SAYS 'RISE' THE SUN WOULDN'T DARE TO DISOBEY
...find my self entering an unlimited Field in which Demosthenes, Ciecre, and others of immortal Fame have exulted before me! A field which incloses the whole Circle of Science and Literature, the History, Wisdom, and Virtue of all Ages. Shall I dare to expatiate here in full Career, like the Nobler Animals, that range at large, or shall I blindly, basely creep, like the male, or the mussell?--Tell...
...look-until the light of history fades into the dusk of legend-such aspirations of man have been submerged and swallowed by the violence and the weakness of man at his worst. Generations have tried and failed. Will we succeed? I do not know, but I dare to be hopeful and confident...
...result that prices have held relatively stable. But even economic conservatives have lately accepted the idea of using deficits to stimulate the economy in slack years. Sighs Virginia Senator Harry Byrd: "Franklin Roosevelt was elected on a platform that pledged to cut governmental expenditures by 25%. Nobody would dare run on such a platform today...