Word: dares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does not include all of Cambridge, our fair city has discovered an effective means of stifling the spread of Whiffleball. Construction workers perform their own rites of spring each year when they rip up the bank of the Charles River in time to suffocate joggers and sundry athletes who dare to brave the dust and fumes of Memorial Drive...
...personnel from churches in Europe amd North America, their real relevance to the urgent questions facing Africa and its people will continue to be distorted. This is important because, while governments will readily accept assistance for development channeled through the churches from outside sources, as soon as the churches dare to raise questions about corruption, repression and other evils practised by African governments, these same governments denounce the churches as vestiges of colonialism that need to be discarded...
Anderson, a past Academy Award nominee, said a writer must dare to expose himself and his feelings. "Writers who don't write out of personal experience are forgotten," he added...
...such potential crises, according to Luttwak, the U.S. may find that it does not "dare to use its nuclear weapons to offset Soviet advantages in conventional forces." As Luttwak imagined the scene, "Moscow could then say to the West, 'Gentlemen, we are superior in ground forces, we can take most of West Germany in 48 hours. You cannot checkmate that by strategic nuclear forces, for you no longer have superiority. Now we want to collect.' " And what will they collect? Luttwak speculated that while they would not actually occupy Western Europe, they would demand that it "show...
...eradicate your homeland.' But we can't do this any more because now they could respond: 'Get lost. Your homeland will go at the same time.' Almost immediately after invading, moreover, Soviet forces could be hugging West German cities. Would NATO dare use tactical nuclear weapons to root them...