Word: daring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...take "the high center road." Said he: "I want the Republican Party to be 'conservative' enough to save every time-tried fundamental upon which the unique and precious character of Americanism depends ... I want the Republican Party to be liberal enough to march with the times, to dare new answers to new problems, and to use the power and strength and initiative of government to help citizens to help themselves when they confront problems beyond their resources and control." Both Vandenberg's and Dewey's speeches were attempts to pin a label on the party...
...Mindszenty's tormentors the Pope said: "Let us all pray . . . that those who rashly dare to trample on the liberty of the Church and the rights of human conscience may at length understand that no civil society can endure when religion has been suppressed and God, as it were, driven into exile...
...declare war." At 8 p.m., the Haitian government answered "that loathsome beast" by announcing that it had already recalled its ambassador. But Roland was hardly satisfied. The following afternoon he sneeringly challenged the Haitians: "I give you a rendezvous at the border, gentlemen, which I know you will not dare to keep, cowards that...
Though such extravagant language was not justified, it was in some sense understandable. Death of a Salesman is no more than an altogether creditable play. But it is also a magnificent try, concerned with something so simple, central and terrible that the run of playwrights would neither care nor dare to attempt it. It reveals the tragedy of a typical American who loses out by trying too hard to win out; it chronicles the propless failure born of the worship of success...
...even in their years of dictatorship did Mussolini and Hitler dare display their pictures in their stage-managed parliaments. I was about to say that I did not know of a single case where this is so, but I am mistaken. There is a small country in the Antilles, a small, unfortunate country in which the President re-elects himself time after time-the republic of Santo Domingo. Its national parliament is presided over by the photograph of Dictator General Doctor Rafael Leonidas Trujillo." Cries of "May bien, muy bien" and loud applause rang through the chamber...