Word: daring
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Secondly the Cabinet cut wages, lopped off from 30% to 100% of the "high cost of living bonuses" which were extended to State employes a year ago. No Government ever took a step more daring, more dangerous. No U. S. statesman would dare cut so much as the salaries of all letter carriers. Yet there was no loud, visible upheaval In Italy last week...
...what paper would thus dare to flout rich, potent, organized hat makers? Yet hat making (especially straw hat making) is a leading Italian industry...
...Tenno (Emperor) of Japan is held sacred and sublime, a being directly descended from the Sun Goddess, and himself divine. Who would dare to jab a hypodermic into the flesh of such a being...
...Carroll's correaction of his "Phantasmagoria," one of the recently acquired Carroll collection, is also on show, as is the proof of "Confessions of a Unionist," by Stevenson. This work, which deals with the Irish question, was originally set up for Scribner's Magazine, but as they did not dare to publish it for fear of causing trouble, it was not actually brought out until recently...
Normally Professor Fraser would have sought a dog for this experiment. But in London recently anti-vivisectionists have been active. Professor Fraser therefore did not dare use a dog, especially because conditions of his experiment forbade his chloroforming the animal. Some laboratory assistant might babble...