Word: dares
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...strong focus on the heroine. For example, it all comes right in the second act, as three madwomen (Miss Singewald, Valerie Clark, and Carla Barringer) amicably enter Miss Singewald's basement to plan the elimination of the world's evil men. They attack each other, apologize, criticize, contradict, dare, resolve, shift positions, and conclude as amicably as when they came in. And in the end, the world's evil men are eliminated...
...debate that raged in Iceland about whether the establishment of barbershops should be permitted. As a storyteller, Laxness shares with Brazil's Jorge Amado (TIME, May 28, 1965) an infectious zest for the eccentricities of ordinary people and a genial affection for those resolute fish in humankind who dare to swim against the tide...
...dare display on the cover of a once respectable magazine this case of arrested development, this leech who capitalizes on the female form...
...Kerr was insisting on an immediate "vote of confidence." Kerr, also understandably, saw it more as "a clarification of status" and, believing the votes were against him, as "a suggestion for quick execution." Some regents, however, felt that Kerr was gambling on the possibility that the regents would not dare fire him in order to avoid the charge of political interference...
That the clouds of heaven dare not cross...