Word: daring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...collected more than $200,000; a local radio station held a 48-hour telethon two weeks ago and raised $36,000. According to Riva, the town's patriotism "has never been higher, but there is increasing anxiety that war may affect this haven of peace in ways none dare predict." Father Fidencio Gago, the parish priest, was holding a special Mass every evening, leading the community in a simple prayer: "We beseech you, Mary, Holy Mother of Christ, that peace will come soon...
...Because of today's pressures, a student's commitment to others and the team are suffering," he observed "There's been a change in attitudes In the past, being on the team meant more. There were no excuses for missing practices, and no one would dare miss a meet Now everything is a good reason to miss practice. Everyone's got a lab or a Rhodes Scholarship interview or some thing...
Another recipient of human compassion last week was Real Dare, the only gelding in this year's Derby. He finished last. Not that anyone.expected Real Dare to win. He had finished last in the Louisiana Derby. But there is more at stake in Real Dare's life than derbies. A revolutionary operation to restore his manhood is being contemplated. The Jockey Club, arbiter of breeding and cold even to artificial insemination, does not know what to say about this. Breeding is the essential industry of Thoroughbred racing, and, in the midst of this broken-down year...
...words of Paul Warnke, a leading U.S. negotiator for the unratified SALT II treaty, "inherently implausible." Kremlin leaders, they insist, would not launch the first strike, because they could never be sure that they really would destroy most of the land-based American missiles. Even if they did, they dare not run the risk that the U.S. would hit back with a catastrophic strike on Soviet cities in return. Reaganites reply that worry about the Soviets' capacity for nuclear blackmail is in itself a force in world politics, frightening both the Western allies and the leaders of Third World...
...surrounding hillside 24 hours later. The army did not pursue them, reports TIME Caribbean Bureau Chief William McWhirter. Next day, openly cynical townspeople defiantly drove past the army checkpoints in pickup trucks straining with market goods and in crowded passenger buses sagging on their axles. "The soldiers don't dare come up the road," said one of the passengers as they headed toward a highway where los muchachos?the guerrillas?were collecting "war taxes" from passing vehicles. Along the roadside lay the now commonplace evidence of the country's brutal strife: hacked and mutilated carcasses of the dead, some...