Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...superb good humor in adjusting themselves to this American style of dining. Refreshing was the Archbishop's intimate fellowship with Presiding Bishop Sherrill of the American Protestant Episcopal Church. Affectionately he called him "Henry," while he in turn called the Archbishop "Jeff." I wonder how many Britishers would dare to say "Jeff" to the man who crowned Queen Elizabeth...
...Dare They Go? The basic differences between McCarthy and the spirit of the Senate shone most clearly in an exchange between Watkins and McCarthy about the role of the Senate investigator. Taking off from McCarthy's celebrated attack on Brigadier General Ralph Zwicker (when he said Zwicker was unfit to wear a general's uniform), Watkins asked McCarthy: "What is your view with respect to the right of Senators to lecture witnesses, or sort of pass judgment on them, whether they are guilty and all that sort of thing, in connection with these hearings?" Replied Joe: "I think...
...vital question remained: Could France's allies persuade it to admit the Germans to NATO? The British thought that Mendès-France, at least, could be made to listen to "reason" because, after finding himself a minority of one against five at Brussels, he would hardly dare isolate his country seven to one in London...
...collar workers often prevents others, especially young industrial workers, from feeling at home in the church . . . Our world is characterized by unprecedented technical, organizational and scientific achievements and at the same time by disillusionments. cynicism and fear The church must not become an escape for those who do not dare to look such a world in the face...
...fertilizer chaps who have been a constant trial to Archbishop Fisher is that gaitered fellow traveler, Hewlett Johnson, the "Red Dean" of Canterbury. Foreigners are constantly confusing the dean with the archbishop. In dealing with the Red Dean, Archbishop Fisher has mainly contented himself with humor, e.g., "Dare I say that when he is at home, I wish he were overseas? And still more profoundly, when he is overseas, I wish he were at home...