Word: daring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...separatists [the R.P.F. name for Communists] were to enter what is conventionally known as the government of France, from that moment legitimacy would be ended . . . If the wretches were to invite into the government the men who do not play the game of France, then who would dare to say that we would still be in a state of legality...
...wouldn't dare use anything else," Fink said...
...Chambers to repeat in public his accusation that Hiss had been a Communist, Chambers took him up on it. Two nights later, on the radio, he repeated the charge, in effect challenging Hiss to sue him for libel or slander (TIME, Sept. 6). Last week Hiss took Chambers' dare, filed a $50,000 suit in Baltimore's Federal Court, charged that Chambers' statements were "untrue, false and defamatory." Said Chambers: "I welcome Mr. Hiss's daring suit . . . But I do not believe that Mr. Hiss or anybody else can use the means of justice to defeat...
This will be necessary, Schlesinger said, because to achieve the real goal of Western Union in Europe, each participating nation would have to sacrifice its own defenses to the common cause, and they dare not do this without assurance of U.S. support...
...from the Heathen. Old Zvi, her father, would not live in the land Ana rules. Two years ago Zvi came to Ana asking her help for a group of Rumanian Jews. She received him amiably on a Saturday afternoon. Coffee and cake was brought in. Old Zvi exploded: "How dare you offer me hot coffee on a Sabbath! Have you gone mad?" Ana, trying to calm her father, led him to the kitchen and showed him the electric percolator. She explained that, since no one needed to strike a match, no religious law was being violated, but he called...