Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...forbid that I should claim for our country the mantle of perfect righteousness. We have committed sins of omission and sins of commission, for which we stand in need of the mercy of the Lord. But I dare maintain before the world that we have done much that was right...
...police force of nearby Glendora. After two months the chief called him in and fired him. The reason: women. Colson picked up his pistol, put it to his head and said, "I bet you don't think I got guts enough to pull the trigger. You wanta dare me?" The chief talked...
Here Comes the Groom (Paramount) puts Bing Crosby and Producer-Director Frank Capra up to their oldest tricks and ought to amuse all but those optimistic moviegoers who dare to hope for new ones. Crosby, carrying his breeziness this time to gale proportions, plays a newspaperman home from France with two adopted war orphans. Unless he can get a wife to mother them, they will be deported within the week. But his longtime fiancee (Jane Wyman), tired of waiting, had finally decided to marry Multimillionaire Franchot Tone. To woo Jane back just in time to disrupt a colossal wedding ceremony...
...bone-crunching punishment of scrimmage and play. Hero Derek wears a clumsy crew cut, which does not quite keep him from looking too pretty for his role, and a monotonous expression of intensity, which does not quite pass for acting. The film's most natural performer: Aldo DaRe (named John Harrison for future film roles), as a wised-up teammate who is out for all the dough...
...suspension resulted from an incident last spring, when the 6-foot-5-Inch center threw a glass tumbler out of a dormitory window on a dare. It hit the windshield of a professor...