Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thinkers. Cassel is curious about why Carey declines to fulfill his assignment and kill Gazzara. Carey curls his lips over his gums, lets a little foam drip, and says, "Like Karl Marx said: opium is the religion of the people." From him, that is sufficient explanation. No one would dare ask further questions...
Thanks to TIME'S medical assessment of the presidential candidates [Feb. 9], we now know much, much more than we could ever care to know -and certainly more than we would ever dare...
...strongly that it is more important to carry out the reforms proposed in her 20-point economic and social program, such as abolition of indentured labor, land redistribution and expanded irrigation networks. That may be so. But her determination to quash all opposition suggests that she does not dare to risk a genuine test of her popularity. "Corruption is not the real issue here," deposed Chief Minister Karunanidhi told TIME Correspondent William Smith last week. "She wants one-party rule and one-woman rule...
...English mother. Although gifted with a good singing voice, she abandoned a stage career because of her shyness. In 1914 she married a British airman, Colonel Archibald Christie, and plunged into the war effort. Between volunteer nursing and practicing pharmacy, she wrote her first detective story on a dare from her sister. The Mysterious Affair at Styles introduced the 5-ft. 4-in. dandy and retired Belgian police officer Hercule Poirot. His egoism, eccentricities and the fact that for a time he had a Watsonian colleague called Hastings suggest that Christie was strongly influenced by Sherlock Holmes...
...master's residence in Kirkland, grew up a Protestant, a leaf on a family tree overgrown with Congregationalist ministers. But the family church had become an empty routine to her. As a high school senior, Hagee visited the Mormon church in her home town, St. Joseph, Missouri, on a dare from a Utah Mormon she had befriended at a student conference. Hagee found "a lot of spirit there, something very real, something I wanted to know about...