Word: daring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...when he first returned as Pope in 1979, it was clear that something undefinable but palpable had changed. Whether that was good news or bad was another question. The first trip produced the optimism and euphoria that led to the creation of Solidarity, but it would be difficult to dare hope this time that anything but more frustration, hardship and agony lay in store for the long-suffering Polish nation...
...seven volumes, that his intended career was as a writer in search of a vocation. The other contradictions also have a strange consistency: in September of 1899 I complain to you that "I'm so horrified at the way the money slips away that I don't dare go out any more"; yet four months later, Anatole France scolds me for my extravagance in sending him "an admirable and extremely costly Rubens drawing." I claim, legitimately, to be well read, and yet at the age of 26 have not discovered Dickens or Dostoyevsky, my favorite Russian author...
While more than 125 student organizations enjoy the priviledge of official college recognition, some groups' activities are so radical that they dare not ask the University for recognition...
...been crushed beneath his quarterly projections set a pace that the singers cannot match. Whatever purists may have thought were its vulgarizations and deficiencies, Joseph Papp's Broadway presentation of The Pirates ofPenzance was all of a brassy piece. This Mikado is too fitful, too ambitious, perhaps-Dare we even whisper it, risking the rage of Savoyards everywhere?-a little too respectful. Crazy? More like not crazy enough...
WHEN A network calls a game shows Fantasy, it seems reasonable to expect lucky participants to win either vacations in exotic places of frivolous, fantastic prizes like a dare with their favorite celebrity. But NBC's Fantasy more often deals with the real, mundane world, where economic realities alter the definition of a dream...