Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...dare you compare lovable, honest, confused, right-minded George F. Babbitt and the sanctimonious hypocrite Elmer Gantry? No knave, Babbitt. Once his conscience is awakened, he tries to fight the restrictions of his society, but of course he loses. I am all for Sinclair Lewis. Along with Remain Rolland and maybe a couple of others, he showed that in the 20th Century it is still possible to understand the foibles of humanity and yet have a warm love for people...
...historic enemy. Thus he was logically, if not actually, an enemy of the Allies; but when World War II's outcome was in sight, he made a separate peace. Such was his standing as a patriot and "uncrowned king" of Finland that the Russians did not dare to seek revenge...
...heavy-lidded vamp of the silent screen, who first came to the U.S. in 1922, appeared last week in a Los Angeles federal court to take her final oath as a U.S. citizen. She was now busy, she said, writing her autobiography to be called, As Much As I Dare...
...main issue, it lies about the details. There are good lies and bad. Good ones are those that the [middle class] believes; excellent ones catch some of the carriage public; execrable ones are those nobody believes, and that only the most shameless ministries dare repeat. Everybody knows this. It is one of the first maxims of state, and must never escape your memory-or your lips...
...little daffy, is a sport that looks as American as rodeo riding. Actually, the accepted story goes, it was invented by officers of France's snow-skiing Chasseurs Alpins, who took to the waters of Lake Annecy in the French Alps some 20 years ago on a dare. Since those days, it has grown up on the lakes, rivers and bays of the U.S. into a lusty-sized sport-although it still has a long way to go before it threatens its hilly, cold-weather cousin in popularity...