Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Caring is what we sing about, write about, talk endlessly about-and do nothing about. Schuyler does. Its students dare to do, and to be free of the mindless conformity of nonconformity...
...both the emphasis and the rhetoric have changed. The language of legal reform has replaced draconian appeals. "By reforming criminal justice in America," Mitchell said recently, "and attacking the environmental roots of crime, we may dare to look toward an enlightened day when we will need fewer, rather than more prisons, police stations and even courthouses...
Labyrinthine Lanes. Territories are staked out like turf in gang wars. Hoodlums have hired out as political killers. Even police dare not venture into many of Calcutta's labyrinthine lanes. On any given day, the newspapers may list half a dozen murders. One of the most vicious was that of Hermanta Basu, 75, a veteran leader of the All-India Forward Bloc, who had his throat cut last month as he was getting into a taxi...
Women's suffrage? Not a soul in the postage-stamp principality of Liechtenstein (pop. 22,000) would dare admit to being against it. All three newspapers supported it. Every automobile in sight had a sticker reading I'M FOR IT. Dozens of reporters searched for days without finding a single man who would speak out in opposition. Yet last week, when Liechtenstein's conservative, German-speaking male voters went to the polls, only 1,817 said ja, while 1,897 voted nein...
...what people will do to make a buck?" she snarled. "It's the worst sort of invasion of privacy. Bogart didn't do this sort of advertising when he was alive, so why should they be able to make him do it when he is dead? How dare they!" The airline pointed out that permission had been obtained from the copyright owners, but it withdrew the ad anyway. Said a Pan Am spokesman: "We don't want to cause anybody any upset...