Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even though he has lost to a great extent his undergraduate awe of Harvard, Bate still feels a healthy respect for the University, and cannot quite reconcile himself to his position. For some years, he admits, he felt like Huckleberry Finn at the mansion of the Widow Douglas, afraid that anything he touched or tried would bring a reprimand from authority...
...racket. Swindler Ito spent part of his plunder on such delicacies as broiled eels in Tokyo and an expensive mistress in Kyoto. He admitted that he had continued to solicit funds even after his investment company had gone bankrupt, blandly told police: "If this constitutes fraud, I'm afraid there's nothing I can do about...
...Departed for the airport 6:30 a.m.. where we took a chartered four-motored plane ... to the Wai-taki Project . . . We were met by cars and driven to the Waitaki hydroelectric project, [where] the ladies were served coffee and cakes. Very sumptuous, but I'm afraid will not whet our appetites for the big luncheon at the mess hall...
...impression is that people in the State Department are so nervous that they hate to increase their liability by consulting anybody outside," Reischauer said. "They're afraid to call people because it might involve them in later criticism...
...publisher of the Bulletin, Hamlen says he is constantly afraid that some big national magazine will lure away his editor. All of the past several editors could have gotten a job with virtually any magazine they chose, the publisher explains, and he extends this statement to the Bulletin's new editor, Norman Hall. And indeed Hall has already shown that he will maintain, if not improve, the Bulletin's "high level of editorial achievement...