Word: daring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...empty seat in 1986, thinks his timid colleagues are secretly pleased by the plain-spoken provocations. Says McCain: "When you hear Barry Goldwater make a statement, and God knows he's quotable, the sentiment on the Hill is, 'Thank God Barry said what I didn't dare...
...could these guys dare to profane the memory of that championship season...
...first week in July, the Miami Herald showed up: "Henry's Hideaway is no ordinary, run-of-the-mill bar. In addition to Scotch on the rocks or plain cranberry juice, the thirsty can get a few holy words from the proprietor." Then came the television crews. Dare not to be novel in the dog days of summer, the parishioners quickly learned, getting a little testy. By fall the thing had blown over...
...size of the audience, say critics, is just the trouble: the enormous stakes make the debates highly artificial events bearing little if any resemblance to a genuine debate. Candidates who dare not take the risk of quizzing each other insist on a panel of journalists to pose the questions, which they usually answer with rehearsed minispeeches that may have little relation to what was asked. The discussion of issues gets squashed into two-minute spiels and one-minute rebuttals that are wildly oversimplified at best and all too often downright misleading. In past campaigns, charges New York Times Columnist...
...worked for Philips Electronics as a research scientist, is the very opposite of Rubbia. He is self-effacing and calm; winning the Nobel does not noticeably excite him, although he admittedly wanted it. Says he: "Let us say that I didn't exclude it, yet I did not dare to hope we'd get it." -By Natalie Angier. Reported by Robert Kroon/Geneva