Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...speed-happy crew at Daytona Beach whipped through the safety tests at a far faster clip than the Sunday driver would dare. Contestants took off in the maneuverability trials with wheels screeching, barreled into intersections at 50 m.p.h. and jammed their brakes to the floor in a panic stop. In the passing trials, those whose cars had automatic transmissions rode behind the pace car with left foot on the brake, right foot heavy on the throttle. When the time came to pass, they simply released the brake. Already revving up to almost full power, the engine shot them ahead with...
...ignominious Sinai defeat at the hands of Israel, set one big condition. He demanded that the Syrians agree to dissolve all parties in the merger, and accept a single Nasserite National Union such as he has formed in Egypt. Kuwatly and other nationalists agreed. The Communists apparently did not dare object. It remained to be seen whether the Syrian Communists would be forced underground like Egypt's. "No Communist Party has ever dissolved itself before," said Party Chief Khaled Bakdash. "Dictatorships have on several occasions dissolved Communist parties...
There is unrest in the rank and file of the party. The extremist newspaper Transvaler has recently printed letters from troubled readers warning that "we dare not keep the African in our country and deny him full civil rights . . . We are going to pay with the blood of our children for the luxury we enjoy today. That is the ugly truth." There is a strong but probably wishful feeling in United Party circles that the nation is turning away from the Nationalists. For the Africans there is little choice. The United Party also wants the African kept in his place...
...When Sir Walter Raleigh's Roanoke Island colony mysteriously disappeared some time between 1587 and 1590, the message CROATOAN was found carved on a tree. The"lost colony," some experts believe, joined the Croatan Indians. Among them: Virginia Dare...
...parties, vote down the government, compel a new election. Prime Minister John Diefenbaker, watching the Liberal convention last week on TV from his bedroom, where he was recuperating from a wrenched back, gave back the challenge. He was expected to call for a new vote of confidence this week, dare the Liberals to deny it and go to the country...