Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Things being what they are at Harvard, we could scarce dare to believe the recent proposal that wafted like a soft breeze from New Haven--a chance to spend our junior year at Yale. Long has this been our secret, deeply hidden, oft-wished for desire--to be a Yalie...
...never told anyone about his headaches, not even when they became chronic-a round-the-clock ring of obsessive fathers hurling baseball, baseball, baseball at his head. He certainly did not dare to tell his father. The only time Jim ever really interfered with father's ambitions-he sprained an ankle in a skating fall-the old man had a heart attack. After that, since mother Piersall was an invalid too, Jim was the sole support of his family; and as the pressure to make good got stronger, the headaches got worse...
...that we are no longer able to consider this resolution on its merits alone. We have been forced by the President's action to consider also the effects of its passage or defeat . . . Many of us would prefer not to vote for this resolution but we dare not, under present world conditions, vote against...
...dare say. Wasn't Old Milty out there . . . Bought it, I hear...
Once the spectator has caught the tail of Lindbergh's kite, he will hardly dare to let go-Director Wilder sees to that. He worries the last quiver of excitement from the facts-from the time Lindbergh fell asleep in mid-Atlantic, from the fishing boat he hailed ("Which way is Ireland?"), from the landfall at Ireland's Dingle Bay, less than three miles off course after 3,000 miles of flight by dead reckoning. And always there is the thrilling sight of the little plane as it flashes through the air as clean as a sword...