Word: daunting
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Philosophy 138a, "European Existentialism," by its very nature, seems destined to attract a certain number of mid-morning auditors, dilettantes, and "fourth course" seekers. But if Emerson D were entirely filled by curious, rather than "serious" philosophy students, it would not daunt Professor William Earle...
...near the Hungarian border. A thick mist scummed the windshields as the 39-car motorcade rolled eastward under the grey sky toward Andau, a scant kilometer from the border. The mud was ankle-deep along the roadside, and the heavy mist was raw and penetrating. The weather failed to daunt the 300-odd refugees gathered at the camp, and it equally failed to daunt the Vice President of the U.S. who stepped from the car, trim and neat in black shoes, black suit and black Homburg...
...obstacle looms. The Indians and Pakistanis may spurn ghee produced by American Holsteins and insist on good old water-buffalo ghee. But this need not daunt the Department of Agriculture. It can import water buffalo, fill the Wisconsin and Minnesota lake regions with them, get the 4-H Clubs leaping with water-buffalo milk-yield contests, buy the surplus milk, and turn out ghee just like Mother India used to make...
...must admit you daunt...
Church & Chairs. No delicacy of feeling or scruple of conscience should daunt the dedicated 20th Century maiden. Miss Carlyle cited approvingly a schoolteacher who set out to call each of 96 colleagues to ask if she had a brother or uncle suitable for marriage (the 87th said she had). Any place is a good place for the assault, said Miss Carlyle. On cruises, ask the booking agent "when and where eligible bachelors sail ... Kiddingly coax the deck steward into placing you between the two handsomest men on the boat...