Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hoot. "Any preparation we make for fire-fighting and for hospitalization is a drop in the bucket," he said. "Our only hope ... is to altogether avoid war. The greatest asset in civil defense is that the nation be so strong from a military point of view that no nation dare attack...
Johannesburg's 4,000 policemen do not dare patrol the locations. Instead, they raid them at regular intervals. A police party, strongly armed, will arrive in cars, nearly always late at night. They break into houses at random, demand "passes" (all Negroes must carry passes to prove they are employed by whites), and turn the houses upside down, looking for liquor. The armed police go in constant danger of their lives. A white policeman's wife writes: "It is no joke to lie awake at night and wonder if one's husband will come back safely...
Alarmed by the outcry, Joan ducked out of sight. "I dare not leave the house," she said. "The local people might go for me." Said Sergeant Stocker: "As far as I am concerned, the neighbors can complain until their eyes drop...
...Your expose on Lanza will hardly delight the multitudes, but will be appreciated by those who still dare to maintain that there are ideals in music...
...control of machinery, respond to light, color, a wisp of smoke-the faintest touch or the feeblest sound. Today, these electrons can follow a chart, a blueprint or a pattern more accurately than the human eye. Some day, they may even respond to smell and taste. Who would dare predict the future? He is a rash man who would limit an art as limitless as space itself...