Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nearly all the leads that had been given them, including some tips given in mysterious and crude letters they received in the morning, that "you will find D. Parkman Murdered on brooklynt heights," and that "Dr. Parkman was took on bord the ship herculum and this is al I dare to say as I shal be kiled." Thorough investigation of all the tips had failed to yield any reliable information...
...like Emmet Booth, is obsessed by a woman. Matthew Ligne is about to turn the dread corner of 40 into middle age, accompanied by his faithful ulcer, which bites so vigorously at the wrong moments that it almost assumes the lifelikeness of a pet. Like careful Prufrock ("Do I dare to eat a peach?"), he has heard the mermaids singing each to each. The particular blonde mermaid who obsesses him is a girl only glimpsed behind a window. For Matthew Ligne spends most of his time observing the creatures-married couples, tree surgeons, enterprising alley cats-in the little closed...
...Wolfe's reach ultimately did exceed his grasp, he had the courage to dare the universe, to seek for the meaning of human life in human terms, and not be misled by the economic explanations or shallow cynicism of so many of his contemporaries. These letters make a fascinating Journey through the byways of a complex and at times over-whelming personality, "all the strangeness and the glory and the power of life...
...Senate considered President Eisenhower's nomination of William Joseph Brennan Jr. as an associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, McCarthy charged that the 50-year-old jurist had used the "privileged sanctuary" of the New Jersey Supreme Court "to conduct guerrilla warfare against anyone who would dare attempt to expose individual Communists." Patiently, his colleagues heard McCarthy out, then, with McCarthy voicing the single "no," confirmed the nomination by voice vote...
...pumpkin got bruised, the white mice grew too fast and had to be replaced, and the director did not dare use a real coach-and-four because Cinderella and most others in the cast were afraid of horses. Otherwise, rehearsals were proceeding pleasantly in a big Manhattan TV studio where Broadway Showmakers Rodgers and Hammerstein and a cast of stars are preparing a lavish musical version of Cinderella. For a close peek at how a TV spectacular is put together, see TV & RADIO, Rear View...