Word: daring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...village of Spirit Lake (pop. 100), located at 3,200 ft., were evacuated. One defiant oldtimer, Harry Truman, 83, operator of the Mount St. Helens Lodge less than two miles from the crater, said he would stick it out. Truman's view: "That mountain just doesn't dare blow...
Three cheers for Robert Graham and his Nobel sperm bank [March 10]! Whatever its initial difficulties, Graham's concept is one we dare no longer neglect...
...dare to disco, thereby denying the universe and dropping the moment, Boston-Boston is the "best...
...have permitted Iran its commission [Feb. 25] without ascertaining linkage to hostage release. The Iranians will keep the hostages for months while enjoying an orgy of vilification of the U.S., to which we will not dare even to reply...
...which desolates Barbara. He then invites everyone to his munitions plant, where the workers dwell in a model city. From generation to generation the Undershaft inheritance can only go to a foundling, and Cusins qualifies. Moralistically sniffish, Cusins resists Undershaft's blandishments until the cagey old dialectician storms, "Dare you make war on war?" Cusins succumbs, vowing to arm the common man against "the lawyers, the doctors, the literary men, the politicians, who, once in authority, are more disastrous and tyrannical than all the fools, rascals and impostors...