Word: daring
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...capsule bouncing on a rough sea, and in two hours after launch, the destroyer Borie picked it out of the water Opening the capsule itself was no problem but Monkey Sam had to stay in his inner package for four hours more, because Bone's officers did not dare tamper with its mysterious workings and high seas prevented transfer of the package to the task force's mother ship. Finally, guided by radioed instructions, the Borie's men gingerly opened the package. They found Sam the monkey "alive and kicking...
Pierre Cardinal Gerlier, primate of the Lyon diocese, who was responsible for bringing the dying Herriot back into the church, issued a statement rejecting with indignation "the gratuitous and odious allegations . . . which dare to assert that I had taken advantage of the weakness of a diminished man." Herriot not only answered his questions in a firm voice, said the cardinal, but twice expressed "his desire for a religious funeral...
...Girls cured warts by rubbing them with lard and then burying the lard (a method described by Francis Bacon). They performed a levitation stunt that once fascinated Samuel Pepys. They still believe that reciting the Lord's Prayer backwards makes the Devil appear, and like the Elizabethans, seldom dare...
Ages in the midst of modern Europe, and it would hardly dare to attack the United States with the military resources at its command: a standing army of 20 mailclad bowmen...
Nowadays few people except Wife Vivienne would dare talk so impiously to Hub Robinson. At 54 he bosses the flashiest, costliest series in television: the Ford-sponsored NBC lineup of 39 weekly go-minute spectaculars. With a budget of $15 million, Hub Robinson can recruit some of the brightest players and producers-as he proved last week in his third Ford special, Henry James's eerie classic...