Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...visited him in the White House. "It is not the policy of the United States to bomb people." From the Kennedy Subcommittee on Refugees staff report: the target of the bombardment of Laos is "the economic and social structure of the rebel-held areas of the country." None dare call it genocide...
...They reveal a man with an abiding desire to be isolated, unclocked, unshackled by the limelight. At times this shows directly: "Beyond the coffin confines of telephone booths, my arms stretch to read, in vain." At times it appears obliquely: "Poor fish who knew the sea why did you dare...
...seriously, he said, WHAT ARE YOU GOING TO DO WHEN YOU GROW UP? How can a senior, he said, possibly communicate that empty question, that secret fear, the experience of negation and the negation of experience, to one-who-is-not-a-senior? How can I senior dare to remember what it meant to be a freshman? What if, when all is said and done, when we have all lived life to the fullest and realized our potentials, there will still be nothing there? (And what if all this is relevant only to me: another twenty arrogant inches...
...Burckhardt foresaw that ours would be the age of 'the great simplifiers,' and that the essence of tyranny was the denial of complexity. What we need are great complexifiers-men who will not only seek to understand what it is they are about but who will also dare to share that understanding with those for whom they...
...stopping him." Well, not quite. When Mrs. Nixon was showing her husband all the preparations, the President tried to break off and eat a piece of a huge gingerbread house put together by Assistant Chef Hans Raffert for the State Dining Room. Said Pat: "Don't you dare!" (He didn't.) Since Nixon does not enjoy carving, the Christmas turkey will arrive at his table presliced...