Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican defectors, fell six votes short of the two-thirds necessary to reverse the veto. Result: oil companies are legally free to charge any prices they think the market can stand-as, indeed, they have been since Sept. 1, when the old law expired. However, they dare not do so until they see whether the President and Congress will be able to negotiate a compromise...
...choice is necessary, says Galbraith, with an obvious eye on the 1976 U.S. elections: Government could stimulate the economy as much as might be necessary, without causing inflation, if only the public knew enough about the wonders that wage-price controls can perform to elect an Administration that would dare to impose them...
...wealth or the insecurity of their social position. They are all amazingly, boringly secure in a world in which they have no historical place. No Irish, as has often been pointed out during the past few weeks, lived on Beacon Hill in the 1920's. Any Irishman who would dare to move there, even in a piece of fiction, must have some distinct goal in mind, some all-encompassing ambition that would overcome the unspoken but still strict social rules of the time, and of our time...
...people living in it false, and nowhere is this more clearly shown than in the relationship of the Lassiters and their servants. Tuesday's episode showed Mrs. Hacker, the housekeeper, pleading with Rosamond, the youngest Lassiter daughter, not to sack the new maid. That a servant would dare to confront her employer so boldly would be unthinkable in a household of the British or American aristocracy. That a woman so recently arrived in the position of having a housekeeper would not be threatened (as Rosamond was not) by this kind of display of gall should be unthinkable in this...
...there have been gains since then, as well as losses. Many women feel "liberated" from what they put up with then, though whether this is a gain in contentment and independence would be hard to measure. Anyone who would dare to argue that, all things considered, right now might indeed be the best time for most Americans will have to survive a barrage of catcalls. If nothing else, this is a disgruntled age. So anyone making the case for today must insist that all the returns are nol yet in, and must assume that some trends will continue favorably...