Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...overbearing man, Frontenac quarreled constantly with other colonial officials, not only over administrative affairs but also to get more than his share of the graft from the rich fur trade. He was far less pugnacious with the Indians. Eccles claims that in the critical year of 1681 Frontenac was afraid to meet the Iroquois ; he sat in his Quebec château and let the colony's outer defenses run down. "[Because of] his weakness and irresoluteness in the face of danger," Eccles says, "no river was safe any more, every portage was a potential ambush...
...good it is, how strong he feels and what it's like to ride him," he says, "but you can't; a guy's just got to ride him to know."Jockey Jack Westrope, whose mount, Magic Lamp, is a 30-to-1 shot, says: "I'm not afraid of the grey horse." Guerin looks at Westrope and walks out, unsmiling...
...authorities on gas, bishops, bestsellers, editors looking for writers, writers looking for publishers, publishers looking for dollars, existentialists, serious physicists with nuclear missions, men from the BBC who speak as though they had the Elgin marbles in their mouths, potboiling philosophers, professional Irishmen (very lepri-corny), and, I am afraid, fat poets with slim volumes...
...expense in a $40-weekly suite in Brooklyn's topflight St. George Hotel. Why weren't they held in jail or sent to prison for stealing the revolvers? Because New York authorities do not trust their ability to keep order in their own penal institutions. They were afraid that Lefty and The Rabbit would be killed by a friend or hireling of Mazziotta's. Many times known murderers have gone free because the witnesses against them were murdered...
...celebrities, starlets, showgirls, models. According to the Adams House superintendent who knew him well, Schine got many telephone calls and telegrams from different girls. He reports Schine had a particular preference for airline stewardesses. Others say Schine loved to be seen with beautiful women. Schine's father was always afraid that he would get married while at college, but one girl who went out with him dismisses this possibility. "Dave certainly wasn't the type to get involved with a girl...