Word: dares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Told You So." Promptly, the President told the nation. Travelers slapped each other's backs. A lot of people said, "Sure, I told you so-they didn't dare pull...
...laxity uncharacteristic of this nation is doing more to develop ill will toward the U.S., and hunger and starvation for the people of Europe, than citizens of the U.S. dare to realize. How can we honestly sit down to the table with our consciences and not make sacrifices to aid pitiful and undernourished children...
...strike had approached the proportions of the British general strike of 1926, which had boomeranged on labor. He would not wanf that. There was a point beyond which he did not care-or dare-to go, which he had carefully calculated. He fed on discontent but he had no stomach for disruption...
...Postman Always Rings Twice (M-G-M). When James M. Cain started writing his hard, high-strung little novels twelve years ago, it struck many screen-wise readers that he was putting on paper a kind of movie that Hollywood would never dare put on celluloid. Raymond Chandler and Billy Wilder sensationally proved how wrong that was, two years ago, with Double Indemnity, Ranald Mac-Dougall, Catherine Turney and Michael Curtiz followed up last year with Mildred Pierce, less expert yet crudely exciting. But the screen version of The Postman Always Rings Twice, the first, most ferocious and in some...
...know my life and character," Dickens wrote to a friend, "and . . . you may understand that the intense pursuit of any idea that takes possession of me is one of the qualities that makes me different, sometimes for good, sometimes, I dare say, for evil, from other men." But Mrs. Dickens was bewildered by her passionate husband's avid pursuit of the moment. She found it hard to understand how he could give away to uncontrollable grief on hearing that a friend had died, and a few hours later enter into amateur theatricals with uncontrollable guffaws...