Word: daring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...absolutely unfounded, positively silly. And to think that she is a high-school teacher whose office involves the molding of youth into fairminded, liberal, charitable men and women. She may be able to pound mathematics or whatever she teaches into the heads of her unfortunate pupils, but I dare say that she leaves them totally devoid of inspiration resulting from the radiation of those fine and noble purposes which should actuate every schoolteacher and college professor. I cannot conceive of a woman threatening boycott even on such illusive provocation. But fear not. Her veiled threat that she will make enemies...
Since then (56 years) the Japanese people have been losing, ever so slowly, the disgust and loathing which they felt formerly for the Eta. In the Japanese army there are now two Generals who are said to be of the "unclean". Reputedly they dare not admit this stigma, and only speak to others of their class in secret places, usually at night. At the Imperial University of Kyoto only one instructor has admitted that he is of the "Defiled Ones." Each year he defiantly announces to his students: "I am an Eta. Let any who are revolted not seek...
...bald, intense man answered: "If you get Mr. Flinn to the point where you dare go to bed, I'll lend you my pajamas...
...Free Country" (U. S. A.) of her adoption, and articulate enough to smother with its excess every possible husband. It is a need of such unusual and innocent intensity that Alma's story, much of it in broken English, hovers constantly between the exquisite and the absurd. To dare this hovering was a brave thing and Author Fuller's feat of bringing Alma credibly through from naive immigrant to disillusioned but still saintly New England housekeeper, is a remarkable one. Her repeated rejections, by men so various as Niels, a brutish fellow immigrant, and Eric Rasmussen...
...Daudet felt safe in his office, announced that he would reside there indefinitely in a self-proclaimed state of siege. To reporters he cried: "My house, my stable and my inkpot are henceforth here! My Leaguers ["Camelots") will not allow me to go to prison. Let the Prosecutor General dare to try to arrest me! He is mistaken if he believes, as he says, that I will have to bear the expenses of his proceedings. I am within my right and I shall not move! I am ready for anything and will do whatever circumstances or my fancy dictate. Tell...