Word: daring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Cuban leader knew about, even if most Americans did not. "The overriding deceit--one that still distorts the history of those 13 days--was the absolute determination of Jack and Bobby Kennedy to conceal their campaign to assassinate Castro and destroy his regime," Hersh writes. "Kennedy did not dare tell the full story of the Soviet missiles in Cuba, because it was his policies that brought the weapons there." This is an interesting theory, but it's plucked out of thin air. Hersh goes on to argue that amid the "fanaticism" exhibited by both J.F.K. and Castro, only Khrushchev...
...asked whether we can coast through the rest of the campaign with $500 million still to raise or whether we can rest--soporifically tranquilized--on our endowment laurels, then our reply--I feel certain--must be that we dare not," he told a crowded Sanders Theatre...
...science to the SATs and ACTs is part of an effort to find ways of comparing students and schools from all over the country. That most of these efforts aren't explicitly run by the federal Department of Education should not obscure their nationalizing effect. Few high schools would dare proclaim that they weren't going to prepare their students for the SATs. But American education is still quite local in one crucial way: individual schools have the freedom to be bad. There is no reliable way today to ensure that every American public school student is getting a decent...
...crossed the stage of Symphony Hall and caught her first glimpse of an explosively enthusiastic and entirely unseated audience. lang launched almost immediately into her first number, a bluesy Willard Robison song called "Don't Smoke in Bed," whose admonition she has called "another way of saying 'Don't dare sleep with anyone else...
...look to your left and your right like they told you when you got here, but there is no one around. The Help Desk is closed. No computer science concentrator is there to come to your rescue. And you dare not call your House user assistant at this hour. You are utterly alone in the universe...