Word: dares
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dare Call It Treason, by Richard M. Watt. The mutiny of almost 100 French divisions during the bloodiest fighting of World War I was long hushed up, but now it has been skillfully told by a salesman turned history buff...
Arab and African leaders generally sneer at Hassan II of Morocco because he is a King in an era of crumbled monarchies. Yet such "progressives" as Egypt's Nasser and Ghana's Nkrumah would not dare to let their own people indulge in the measure of press freedom and political democracy that Hassan allowed in last week's national elections...
...DARE CALL IT TREASON (344 pp.)-Richard M. Watt-Simon & Schusfer...
This weird moment of chaos, when France almost lost a war by losing control of her exhausted troops, is the subject of Dare Call It Treason, the latest in the recent flood of histories about World War I. Treason is all the more remarkable be cause its author is a complete amateur, a flooring-materials salesman who wrote the book (his first) in the children's playroom of his home in Glen Ridge, N.J., and even taught himself French by pasting scraps of a French grammar on file cards which he carried with him on selling trips...
Pagliai's personal fortune of at least $50 million is eloquent testimony to the opportunity Latin America offers to those who dare and who know how. "I give away lots of money and I spend lots," he says with an impish grin. "What the hell...