Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...very doubtful," said he, "whether on the basis of tests we ought ever to dare to decide, at the age of ten, whether an intelligent boy with practical aptitude is destined to become an academic scientist via a grammar school or a practical engineer via a secondary technical school ... Is it right to segregate . . . dull and bright, bookish-minded and practical-minded pupils . . . during the impressionable and formative period of adolescence? ... Is it right to determine the type of education so early without reference to the changes of interest that so often develop during adolescence...
...literary forms in U.S. writing, the short story has thrived most. Since 1915, when Edward O'Brien started his yearbook of The Best American Short Stories, more than 50,000 have appeared in books and magazines; how many remain unpublished, few would dare (or care) to guess...
...ever role as Noah's wife. Shut up in a floating menagerie with a wild-eyed, 600-year-old prophet! Is he saint or maniac? You'll never forget Shem, battling against the fire in the blazing hold; or Ham rescuing Japheth from the maddened gorilla they dare not kill! . . . Marvel at Lassie as she rounds up the escaped leopards fighting on the roof...
...idea of conversion is futile, the hope of an internal revolt is even more so. No revolt could possibly be organized. No conspirator would dare confide in anybody else. Finally, the country is run by experienced revolutionaries like Stalin, who are not likely to be fooled by younger imitators...
...Extremes. Now that the other NATO nations had bought the Pleven plan, Pleven's precarious government was acting as if it did not dare submit it to its own National Assembly. The two extremes of French politics, the Communists and the Gaullists, are whipping up opposition to the plan. Cried General Charles de Gaulle last week: "For centuries, our worth and weight has been identical with that of the French Army. We cannot, we must not lose our army...