Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...World Inside. "Everything here [in the U.S.] is supposed to be exciting, tremendous. So it is up to us artists to give a quiet feeling. When I come on stage, I wait until I sense the people. Sometimes they are afraid, tense; they don't know what to expect from me. When I start to sing, I try to show them by my face what the music is about. Then I can see them relax...
...Press, however, is more than a big business, and is not afraid to turn out books that lose money. But, says Secretary A.L.P. Norrington, "if you're going to drop ?500, it had better be a good book...
...know you wouldn't say it. You'd be afraid...
Still smarting from their defeat in New Jersey's Sixth Congressional District, national G.O.P. leaders were afraid that Arnold would get more votes than either Lipscomb or Collier. More and more local Republicans recognized the need to get behind one candidate. They went all-out for Nixon's man, Lipscomb, with an effectiveness that Senator Knowland reflected when, four days before the election, he, too, issued an endorsement of Lipscomb. The 24th District stayed Republican after all. The vote: Lipscomb 42,880, Arnold 34,545, Collier...
...agreed that none of the schools would be identified in the book, and only four colleges refused a request to participate in the canvass. One of these had a strict regulation against drinking; hence it was afraid that its undergraduates would emulate their professors by seeking the protection of the Fifth Amendment to avoid answering the questionnaires...