Word: daring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Union will agree. He did say what the newspapers quoted him as saying, or at least said words that implied that thought. Whether the laughter in the audience caused by this statement was a sign of approbation and approval, or of admiration for the man who would dare to say, such a thing in such a place, is hard to determine, but that he said it and that it raised considerable furore at the time is certain...
...wouldn't dare. He [the young father] is way above; he is a Crown Prince...
Ruth's record this year is chiefly owed to another member of Yankees. Directly behind Ruth on the batting list is Louis Gehrig. He too is a home-run hitter (47 for 1927). With Gehrig next at bat, pitchers dare not give Ruth a complimentary base on balls, hoping to dispose of his successor easily. Ruth in 1927 received less bases on balls than in 1921, more chances...
...Bishop of Ripon, however, preaching in Leeds the following Sunday, made a protest far broader than simple anti-Darwinism. Said he of Science in general: "With all this new mastery over nature, man has not seemed really to be advancing his own cause. . . . Dare I even suggest, at the risk of being lynched by some of my hearers, that the sum of human happiness, outside of scientific circles, would not necessarily be reduced if, for say ten years, every physical and chemical laboratory were closed and the patient and resourceful energy displayed in them transferred to recovering the lost...
...dare you to let me speak from your station," Judge Rutherford had shouted at Mr. Aylesworth during the Radio Commission hearing...