Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...long queues before the banks, plain folk waited for hours. For those caught without new currency, the government doled out emergency rice rations. Communist bandits in South Korea, who need money for their own purposes, were hard hit-they did not dare to appear at exchange windows. At Kobu in the southwest, 15 of them attacked a government finance office, killing a guard and a bystander, and made off with $6,000 worth of the new hwan. Some of Rhee's political enemies noted bitterly that the new system will make it difficult for opposition parties to convert their...
...senior maid. "She came back at 6. Bano was crying, 'Give me water, loosen me!' Her Highness kicked Bano twice and ordered me to bring a cane and with it she beat Bano. Then she turned on me and screamed: 'You daughter of a pig! How dare you look...
...Those who refuse to remember the past are condemned to repeat it," said she. In May 1945, long before the U.S. got around to a foreign policy of "containing" Communism, she warned: "If we want to stay out of war with Communism we must not appease Communism. And we dare not appease Communism." In the days when the Communists could have been stopped in China, she dueled bitterly, on & off the floor of the House, with the New Dealers who defended a U.S. policy favorable to Communist China...
...which man could extinguish millions of lives at one blow, demolish the great cities of the world, wipe out the cultural achievements of the past-and destroy the very structure of civilization . . . Such a war is not a possible policy for rational men. We know this, but we dare not assume that others would not yield to the temptation science is now placing in their hands." Then Truman moved carefully to the climax of his report - a climax which he, personally, had suggested, without benefit of speechwriters : "There is something I would say to Stalin: You claim belief in Lenin...
...Ralph Richardson is cast as John Ridgeway, a manufacturer who was once a dare-devil aviator and who feels the same way about breaking the sound barrier as some men would about exploring virgin territory. Ridgeway must send more planes and aviators to attempt the seemingly impossible, even after his son-in-law crashes in the first test plane. Although he alienates his daughter and wonders himself whether or not his vision is an evil spirit, he continues. When one of his planes finally beats the barrier, Ridgeway feels no clation--only, perhaps, relief...