Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afraid of losing our funds and being kicked out of our office," Hunt said. He expressed regret that Hastie, adviser to the association, was "apparently tearing down our organization for something that he is more interested...
...President's lady. Two teenage boys stuck their heads in the rear window and shouted: "Hey, Mamie, how about your autograph?" She obliged. The volunteer workers serving coffee and doughnuts had a bad case of nerves. One confessed later: "My knees were so weak that I was afraid I'd pour coffee on the First Lady." Diet-conscious Mamie was a little unsettled herself by the doughnuts, but reached for one reluctantly ("Oh dear me, I would take the one with the most sugar...
...University undertake a program more positive than the traditional birthday party-fund raising celebration. Discussion brought forth the idea of attempting to center the world's attention on the free and just use of knowledge. It was a noble idea and a difficult task. Ironically, the Committee was afraid its scheme would no longer prove apt by 1954. Nevertheless, it adopted the ponderous phrase, "man's Right to Knowledge and the Free Use Thereof" and began planning to unite the world behind this slogan...
...solely on its merits. Furthermore, a committee of 60 top-flight legal and financial experts, appointed in August 1953 by Attorney General Brownell, will report in December on an exhaustive study of antitrust laws that may result in broad changes in antitrust interpretation. Says Stanley Barnes: "We are not afraid to step on people's toes when necessary. But our policy tries to play fair with all comers...
...reluctance; in a sense, he has already made bigger and better confessions in his fiction. The Invisible Writing is nevertheless a fascinating document in which Koestler reaffirms membership in the company of those who, like Silone. Malraux, Chambers and others, have "seen the future" and are very much afraid that it may work. Koestler confesses to a recurring dream in which he shouts warning of terrible danger to a crowd, but no one will listen. With his faculty for making his nightmares come true, he is now living in England, whose natives "believe . . . that prisons and firing squads [and] slave...