Word: daring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...duchess stormed to her feet. "I forbid you," she cried, throwing back her yellow locks like an outraged lioness, "to compare my activities with those of our country's enemies. Don't you dare!" The president jangled a bronze bell to restore order...
Sometimes, generally towards evening, it occurs to him that the squirrels didn't have much meat on them. Some of the Radcliffe freshman look much. . . No! There are some thoughts that even an own dare not think. But it's all so tempting, because anything he does is okay and part of the ASPCA's balance of nature. Surely it doesn't apply only to owls, muses the wise one. People are the ones who make the rules, and they are like owls, only not so wise. If they believe that what is goes, perhaps they live that way themselves...
...comet calmly. But not the third. Declared Wing Chao, president of the International Brotherhood of Magicians: "I graduated as an astrologer in China, and I speak with authority: the most tragic things will happen in Asia and in Europe." Nodded his colleague, Lee Fu: "Things are so bad I dare not speak of them...
...conclusions, and the blunt, graceless prose, have the persuasiveness of a courtroom exhibit. What Freeman once said of Robert E. Lee holds good for his approach to George Washington: "I know where Lee was and what he did every minute of the Civil War, but I wouldn't dare presume what he was thinking...
Long have I wish'd, but never dare...