Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...major. He asks if I know anything about the politics of the department there and I tell him of the debate between those who believe behavioral traits are inherited and others who say such things are determined by one's environment. "You mean totalitarianism vs. liberty," Mohtz says. I dare not ask which is which but it soon becomes apparent he believes only totalitarians try to mold people contrary to the designs of their souls...
...leaving only the whats and the hows. No longer will anyone dare ask a Radcliffe woman if she will work after graduation the only legitimate question is what she will do, where and when. But beside the assumption of a career lurks the ominous shadow of a husband, the how of the future, for the now so dog-eared question has yet to be answered satisfactorily: how to combine a full career with a family, removing the need to opt for one or the other...
...ahead. Play the whole court.' " "My husband's favorite words are 'Shut up and hit the ball.' " Frosty silences can be plangent too. Carl Rowan remembers that when he used to play with his wife Vivien (a better player than he is), there were times when he did not dare look at her on the court. "I knew if I caught her eye, we'd spat." They get on better now because his game has improved. Ira Herrick, a suburban New York mixed-doubles player, remembers that once while playing with a woman, not his wife, he inadvertently cleared...
...hostage who looks amazingly like Shelley Winters searches the sky above Entebbe Airport. "Only a miracle can save us," she says, "and miracles only happen in the Bible." Cut to a tough, determined James Caan briefing his men for the rescue. "Our mission," he intones, "is impossible. But we dare not fail...
...manuscripts for a new five-volume series of novels. His angry explanation: "Practically everything I earn is taxed around 100%. It is all my life's work that is being stolen." Silversmith Rey Urban, 46, moans that while his products are in demand everywhere, "I don't dare produce on a large scale" because of the taxes. In order to avoid records of transactions and hence a tax on earnings, there has even been something of a return to barter. Example: a dentist will fix a plumber's teeth in exchange for having a sink repaired...