Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afraid that the world's diplomats and TIME are completely misled as to the importance of Suez pilots and the difficulty of their task. I dare say that Suez pilotage is one of the easiest in the world. Any master mariner worthy of his salt, if properly briefed by a simple memorandum on the procedure and signaling, should be able to take his ship through. I have steered ships through Suez, and compared to, say, Hell Gate, Suez is a picnic...
Midnight Polish. The war over, Maria returned to New York. The Met offered her the role of Madame Butterfly, but she did not dare try it at her weight. A chance to sing in Chicago blew up when the company went broke. For two years she remained in New York, studying, practicing and eating, but never singing in public. Discouraged and despondent, she sailed for Italy, where she got a job in Verona (at $63 a performance), an audition but no job at La Scala (the director told her that she had lots of faults...
...thanks to their generosity, a statue was unveiled in Vimoutiers for the second time in a century to the glory of the woman who did not discover Camembert cheese. "Marie Harel was a benefactor of humanity!" said Mayor Augustin Gavin, who had helped to dedicate the first statue. "I dare hope that a United States of the World will be formed rapidly and peacefully, modeled after the conquest of the world by Camembert." Said Will Foster, who paid for lunch for about 40 fellow celebrators: "This is the happiest day of my life." Said a local farmer: "Humph...
Jawaharlal Nehru treated the parliamentary outcries of the home-grown Reds with fine scorn: "No one would dare raise his head against the government's decision in a Communist country, because then the head would disappear." But he was disturbed by the riots that followed the House of the People's unanimous vote (the Communists abstaining). "Parliament puts its seal upon [a bill] and it becomes law," said Nehru. "What happens then? Do you go on fighting about it? Once you lose in Parliament, do you take the issue to the streets? Are we becoming an opera...
...other ideas, no doubt). Three such persons, it may be presumed, are John H. Finley, Jr. '25, Master of Eliot House, John U. Monro '34, Director of the Financial Aid Office, and McGeorge Bundy, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, all of whom actually will dare to address a Reunion audience seriously when they take part Wednesday morning in the symposium on "The College: Its Future Size and Shape...