Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Harvant is afraid that with a closed shop it won't be able to govern its employees. I don't think this is tree for we would still follow College orders. We would have to, or we would discredit our union and loss car jobs...
...problem was not answered. Since that time we have had a change of political party. I believe in the things which have been done, but they don't answer the fundamental question. We have done things I think which helped, but we have been afraid, all of us, to really face the facts that this is an economic problem and that none of us knows the answer...
...Mused Mrs. Whalen, previewing Treasure Island three weeks ago: "I'm afraid that this is really a very beautiful fair...
...writing to call your attention to the article published on p. 38 of TIME, Dec. 26, concerning the report made by the Committee on Fundamental Cancer Research. We are afraid that some of the statements made in the article will mislead the public...
...blue & thin in the keen autumnal air," or the tantrums of Mrs. Lincoln ("The Hell-cat is getting more Hell-cattical day by day."). Except where it touches Lincoln, the main note of his diary is one of caustic or amused astonishment, particularly toward Generals McClellan ("the little Napoleon . . . afraid either to fight or run") and Benjamin Butler ("His ignorance of war leads him constantly to require impossibilities from his subordinates and to fear impossibilities from the enemy...