Word: dares
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story that Forrestal had panicked and run away when his wife was held up by a gunman. The night Forrestal jumped to his death, he left a book open to a passage from Sophocles' Ajax: Better to die, and sleep The never-waking sleep, than linger on And dare to live when the soul's life is gone...
...from mistress to mistress, job to job, meaning no harm but constitutionally unable to consider anyone but himself, any moment but now. The young man (Jean Louis Trintignant) is the typological opposite: a self-swallowing introvert who buries his life in his law books and doesn't even dare say hello to the girl he secretly loves...
...pass holders may stagger back as late as 5 a.m. Though some 800,000 West Berliners qualify for the passes, many of them are Flüchtlinge-refugees from East Germany who would be nabbed by the Vopos the moment they crossed the Wall and therefore will not dare...
...years between those who believe in an agriculture producing for the competitive market and those who favor Government supply management," said Charles B. Shuman, a Sullivan, III., farmer who last week was re-elected president of the Bureau, a job he has held since 1954. But, added Shuman, "farmers dare not be complacent and self-satisfied with the wheat victory. We must eliminate existing Government production-control devices and artificial pricing mechanisms as rapidly as possible. We may never find a better time than...
...agreement with Britain and the implementation of the dismantling of ground-based missiles in Turkey and Italy. McNaughton also traveled to Moscow with Averell Harriman to help negotiate the test-ban treaty. Because he may be called to work on "crises" at any moment, McNaughton says he doesn't "dare run the risk of being away from his office." The object of risk is a single telephone with a blue light at which he stares with awe. If the phone rings, assistant secretary Gilpatric is calling; if both the phone rings and the light shines, Secretary McNamara...