Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first glance, it seemed to run counter to Marshall's pessimism, but in reality Wilson was picturing a different section of the U.S. landscape-the humming, hustling American factories in spectacular production. Defense Mobilizer Wilson ebulliently reported: the U.S. is rapidly reaching a point where no nation will dare attack...
...best way--and at the same time the least obvious--places you in a position of power. Simply double park in front of the main subway entrance, lock your car and walk off. You get double value. No one would dare steal your car from under the very eyes of the law and the novelty and audacity of your strategem will completely bewilder the traffic officer...
...best testimonial to the Cureton method is the 165-lb., 9 in. physical therapist himself. Seven years ago, at 42, he dropped in at the Air Force's Chanute Field, took the training obstacle course on a dare, broke the course record by eight seconds. The record still stands. "My father, a sedentary worker," says Dr. Cureton, "died much too young, at the age of 60. My mother, now 75, swims in the ocean every...
...Ginger is the only witness to the murder, and almost the only one in town who might dare to testify against the high-riding Klan. But when she meets her brother-in-law (Steve Cochran) for the first time, she recognizes him as one of the murdering Klansmen. Buffeted by her sister's pleading, the Klan's threats and pressure from a Klan-busting prosecutor (Ronald Reagan), she must decide whether to join or break the town's scared conspiracy of silence...
Weeping, the boy confessed that he had used drugs for a year-first marijuana on a dare from a schoolmate, then the virulent morphine derivative, heroin. The drug made him feel "high and light," and after he met a peddler named "Greasy George," he started using it regularly. To get a "fix" of heroin he had only to ask George: "Do you need a boy?" or "Have you got a thing?" For a dollar, the peddler would produce one of the capsules of white powder he kept hidden just inside the zipper of his pants. Once supplied...