Word: daring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Francis Drake paid a call. In 1587 a second group was dispatched, this one including women and children. They baptized an Indian named Manteo (Manteo is the name of the principal town today), the first successful act of Protestant proselytization in the New World, and a girl, Virginia Dare (Dare is the name of the county today), was born, the first British foal in this land. From 1587 to 1590 the English were tied up with King Philip's Spanish Armada, and the colony assumed far less importance. When an expedition at last arrived to check on the settlement...
...reluctant to dream and wonder. And as people stop imagining, the Nothing will claim even more territory, in conjunction with the evil forces of those who seize power by stamping out free thought. So kids, stay away from those video games, read a good book or two, and dare to dream--and the nothingness will be vanquished...
...addition, the Lampoon, as Smith remembers, was the only organization at that time that had an open, free bar "I dare say," he adds, "that a lot of destroyed livers can be traced to that...
...welcome them as we once did. Letting it decay will drive home the truth-that their immigration to this country is no longer regarded as their human right. Now it depends on obtaining the approval of a giant bureaucracy that will hunt them down like dogs if they dare to enter without its approval...
...toward the end of World War II, Hession dwells on Keynes' sexual proclivities. Born in 1883, Keynes was the first and favored child of an intellectual Victorian family. He had his first homosexual experience at Eton, and later pursued what was then called "the friendship that dare not speak its name" with Artist Duncan Grant, among others...