Word: daringly
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...tormented with the desire for possession," wrote a languishing millionaire in 1921. "I am still in the position of a young man sitting on the rocks on a fine moonlight night in summer, holding the hand of a pretty girl and having a great desire to kiss her, but dare not do so." The passionate metaphorist. Frank Bemis, merely wanted to buy a particularly fine First Folio Shakespeare (he finally did, for $30,000), and his was the kind of passion only one bookseller could inspire...
...crime has been on the increase ever since prohibition was introduced" and that gangs "terrorize whole localities and have made stabbing and shooting an everyday affair in the city." But though many of them privately agree with the Hindustan Times, few members of India's ruling Congress Party dare to say so openly for fear of exposing themselves .to the charge that they are repudiating Gandhi and the constitution...
...Chained Duck) is French slang for a censored press. It carries no advertising, makes no profit, and barely pays the salaries of the editors who own it. But its news sources are among Paris' best, and it often manages to print as gossip what more serious journals dare not print as news, is closely watched by politicians and Cabinet ministers for its reflection of the country's temper (at least three copies are delivered each week to the President's Elyse Palace...
...Alma finally discovers how little she had really known the boy who grew up in her house, another telegram confirms his death in battle. "I only loved him," she mourns. "I never knew him." But to love someone is enough. Mrs. Barrington tells her, "that's all we dare hope for in this life." The "record" of Cliff's life, containing only a few tentative sentences, is wrapped in tissue paper and locked away in a drawer. Boyd and Alma, who have now become "permanently and very old, their correct age." sit in the dark staring...
...television sets that grace the living rooms of members of the local congresses. The question of allocation of resources also has curious answers. The government in Lagos may spend 43 per cent of the national income on education; the government in New Delhi knows that it dare not do so, although India is 85 per cent illiterate, for the Indian who receives a smattering of learning immediately considers himself too good for manual labor of any kind...