Word: dares
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...moms know that they don't have the to change grandma's recipe--they wouldn't dare...
...that polarizes societies. We cannot cast aside the security of the region for the security of the U.S. We must not have interference by any extracontinental power. We must avoid the idea that anyone can interfere in any given country. I think that is possible, and I would not dare say that President Reagan cannot find a solution...
...threat was one that Reagan had voiced many times before. But the words, echoing a celebrated Clint Eastwood line, marked a new high in cocky combativeness, even for a President who has never been exactly deficient in that quality. Both the business executives who greeted the dare with applause and laughter and the members of the Senate Budget Committee at whom it was aimed were aware that Reagan was mockingly embracing the very swaggering-cowboy image his detractors have long been trying...
...gunman he was holding at bay with a .44 Magnum in the 1983 movie Sudden Impact. It reappeared last fall in a parody of the New York Post put together by editors, most of them anti-Reagan, who imagined the President starting a nuclear war by throwing down that dare to the Kremlin. When Reagan was shown last week's Post, which used the same headline on a story about his speech, says an aide, "the President got the biggest boost out of that...
...Sunbelt centrists who feel the greatest need for change; right now, they dare not identify themselves with the national party image. One example: in a number of states, popular Democratic Governors would seem to have the best chance of defeating Republican Senators who will be running for re-election in 1986, but the Governors are reluctant to try. Fred DuVal, an adviser to Arizona's Babbitt, explains that a Governor can present himself to voters as being independent, but "when you run for the Senate you can count on losing eight to ten points (in popularity) just because you become...