Word: daring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...admit that we had attempted something beyond our powers. But you know, we may just succeed. And if that happens, I hope that the many thoughtful, dedicated Americans who opposed the policy will be glad to acknowledge that their country is sometimes capable of even more than we should dare to dream...
Even pets were affected. Said a dachshund-laden woman on one stairway: "I don't dare let him climb. They got discs, you know." In some buildings, striking service employees-among the few New York workers who actually have a sense of service-winked at the labor laws and carried their favorite tenants up in the elevators anyway. Many apartment-based professional men, forced to close their offices, threatened to sue striking Local 32B and/or the landlords for their losses. On the other hand, a psychiatrist on Central Park West kept up his thriving practice by couching his patients...
...popular routes must make reservations well in advance. Other travelers may fret over dusty parlor cars and schedule lapses; TEE passengers can only find fault with luxuries. Complained a Frenchman who rode the Parsifal recently from Paris to Hamburg: "These German waitresses look so stern one doesn't dare pinch their bottoms...
Typical is a series that ran in the women's section of the Seattle Times. In full and numbing detail, Women's Editor Dorothy Brant Brazier described house wife alcoholics in Seattle: how they keep their window shades perpetually drawn, how they dare not show their swollen faces at P.T.A. meetings, how they neglect their children and outrage their husbands...
...films which, aside from a few sight gags, were one long round of beach bunnies undulating to rock 'n' roll. Beach Party begat Muscle Beach Party, which begat Beach Blanket Bingo, which begat How to Stuff a Wild Bikini, and they were billed as BARE-AS-YOU-DARE exposés about WHAT HAPPENS WHEN 10,000 KIDS MEET ON 5,000 BEACH BLANKETS...