Word: daring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Kirkland's baseball team battled to a 10 to 2 victory over Dudley yesterday, but last place Dunster didn't even dare face Adams and lost by default...
...fumbling with unmilitary chores. One American businessman recently complained: "They clutter up any piece of business with the damndest bureaucracy you ever saw. But foreign businessmen here can at least get into SCAP and yell. The Japanese businessmen are even more helpless and paralyzed-and don't even dare go near SCAP...
After getting whacked across his seamed, mustached face by his partner, Lepe postured pompously. Said he: "How dare you? I'll bring this up at U.N. Maybe you don't know I am Mr. Truman's landlord." The audience slapped its thighs and roared. But Lepe wasn't kidding...
...joint order of the day, Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung and Communist Cornmander in Chief Chu-teh said: "Advance boldly, resolutely, thoroughly; cleanly and completely annihilate all. . . in China who dare to resist...
...keep them guessing a little longer" about her age (best guess: early 30s), Orfeo is "a tremendous emotional experience ... I want to cry all the time." A pianist in her teens, she had never taken a singing lesson until 1940, after she had entered a voice contest on a dare...