Word: daring
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...something like collective shame has grown and remained from those times. The worst thing that Hitler did to us-and he did much to us-was that he forced us into the shame of having to bear the name of German simultaneously with his henchmen. We dare not forget those things that people, for convenience's sake, like to forget. We dare not forget the Nurnberg laws, the Jewish star, the burning of synagogues, the deportation of Jews into foreign lands, misery and death. The gruesome thing about these events is not that they involved the fanaticism...
...obscure the fact that the Paris and Bonn agreements had added greatly to the prestige of the West German Republic, just three months old. For his critics who said he had bargained away too much, Adenauer had a stinging retort -one which only a German of political courage would dare to make in 1949. Snapped Adenauer: "Who do they think lost the war, anyway...
...purely political bill designed to win votes, and that the government had no money to spare for the bonus proposal. But when the Socialists forced an open roll-call vote and Adenauer's name was called as the first on the alphabetical list, the Chancellor did not dare oppose the bill. He rose and weakly voted "/a." The other Christian Democrat deputies followed suit...
...finality. "Twenty years ago we worked 20 hours for $2; now we get $15 for eight, that's what." But the king, it was plain, was no longer above timid, hesitant reproach. It wasn't too safe to criticize him openly: the old men didn't dare risk being blackballed by the union; they were too near pension time. And a coal miner's wife in Cinderella, W. Va., who wrote a letter to the editor protesting that John Lewis was "far too old and power mad," had bricks and rocks thrown through the window...
...have gone too far. My optimist has carried me away and led me to overshoot the mark. The last paragraph is not true. The man who politely but firmly declines to sit in an old-fashioned chair to learn: is he worth educating? Can he be educated? Who dare answer? Frederic Cunningham...