Word: dares
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...dockside strikes and irregular mail delivery from TIME's branch printing plant in Cairo had accumulated quantities of unsold newsstand copies of TIME. They were stacked in a warehouse in the Moslem section of Calcutta and TLI's distributor, a Hindu like most Indian businessmen, did not dare try to recover them. Baker located a bearer who was a Christian and helped load the back copies of TIME into a truck himself. Later, the bearer, "a likeable, inoffensive little chap," was kidnapped by a band of Moslems who mistook him for a Hindu and wanted to kill...
...relief check had been cut from $278 to $126. "Only rats could live on that," she cried. "It won't pay for our gasoline." Last week, after five years in California, the startled Brinks found themselves rolling eastward. California authorities had not only taken Mrs. Brink's dare but had bought four new tires ($125) for their 1931 La Salle sedan and had deposited expense checks ahead at Phoenix, El Paso and Abilene to be quite sure that the Brinks kept going...
...that was not all. Crowed the G.O.P.'s spokesman: "We're going to hand him some tough legislation on Communists in government and dare him to veto. We're going to give him some trouble on his Pendergast associations and the Kansas City frauds. Now it's our turn...
...friendly to Moscow; nevertheless, it was guarded by 100 able-bodied young security policemen. In the next car, a "hard" car (i.e., without cushions), 70 Soviet sailors were riding toward an unknown destination; they were not told where they were bound, nor did these servants of a "classless" society dare ask their officers. They preferred to ask me, a foreigner. Most revealing of all was the view from the train's windows. On the Russian side of the border, I saw ruined, largely unrestored towns that had been part of Finland. Viipuri was ghostlike and still in the morning...
...Rome's revered Art Critic Lionello Venturi, who refused to serve on the commission, has no hope that the commission will come around to the radical idea of peeling off the mural. Said he: "The painting is so sacred to them that they will not dare touch it. And by trying to preserve the sacred thing, they may allow it to destroy itself...