Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Among those who will have signed that last petition, there will be the ones who got all excited about it and "strongly felt that that was it." There will some who shall never know why they did it and others, finally, who did not dare to do like anyone else. It is even possible that some of them would not, in the depth of their heart, mind a little bit of racial discrimination...
...Americanism Commission, said Peg, had "taken [him] to task"-and why? Just because he had reported when he was in Europe recently what any fool could plainly see: that U.S. union men are working with the Government to deliver Western Europe into the hands of socialism. The people who dare to disagree with Pegler's choleric omniscience are no ordinary fools. Nevertheless, in this case, said Peg, the facts should be plain, even "should be known to the shallow politicians of the Legion in their jealous competition for trashy publicity to promote their insurance business, their public-relations mills...
...largest dose of poison, according to the Post, is embodied in the "myth of the Terrified Liberal," the message of which is that McCarthy has so terrified the intelligentsia--federal jobholders, scientists, writers, and professors--that they dare not utter a word...
Thomas Sugrue deserves commendation. I did not know that there were any Roman Catholics with enough backbone to dare criticize their ecclesiastical masters...
White-maned and sturdy, at 65, Pianist Fischer gave a program that few living pianists would either care or dare to present. On each night he performed four concertos of Bach, conducting members of the National Orchestra of Belgium and assisting soloists from his seat at the piano. Nodding his big head, or gesturing slightly with a momentarily free hand to indicate the tempo, he kept superb command of the ensemble, while producing immaculate music from his own piano. Characteristically, it was Bach of uncommon serenity in the slow passages, of robust vigor in the strong ones. (Fischer on Bach...