Word: daring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Swingers and Salamanders. The new mood of lotus eating is nowhere more in evidence than in Washington, which was refreshed by a respite from the humid August heat but remained in virtual shock from the novel simultaneous exodus of President, Cabinet and Congress. White House staffers brazenly dare a set or two on the presidential tennis court, or lock themselves in their offices for a cherished hour of uninterrupted reading. West Wing telephones now sometimes ring a dozen times or more before anyone answers. The Georgetown swingers have abandoned Clyde's on M Street, and the venerable waiters...
...Moreover, their reactions to a drug may range all the way from nil to collapse and sudden death as a result of severe allergic shock. "The fate of a drug in the body is a personal affair, as peculiar in a way as a personality trait," says Kalman. "How dare we consider all patients the same? We have to study the drug in the individual patient so that he can be placed upon a proper schedule...
...Company has its own little company-run town in Bellamy, Alabama. Stores, schools, churches, and neighborhoods are segregated in Bellamy. There's no plumbing in the Negro homes, their streets aren't paved, they get paid less. It's a really tough town. Jim Peppler, the Courier's dare-anything photographer who took pictures of some of the meanest crackers in the state, just drove down the main street of Bellamy shooting his camera from on top the dashboard...
...handled 3,000 divorces in the past two years, finds that plaintiff wives of engineers present a strikingly similar recital of marital discord. By their accounts, says the judge, "the husband never wants any family life. He likes to build a stereo set from component parts and then dare anyone in the family to touch it. Every weekend he goes out in his boat by himself and doesn't want his wife or kids to go with him. He never physically abuses his wife and he's a good provider, but when he gives material things he thinks...
...rarely been presented in so finely detailed and lucid a book as this. The work is all the more remarkable because it was written by a 38-year-old part-time historian who doubles as an executive of a floor-materials company in Elizabeth, N.J. His only previous book: Dare Call It Treason, about the revolt of the French army after Verdun...