Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Averell Harriman, New York Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff. But even those who were interested have been scared off by one grim fact: the ailing News is losing an estimated $75,000 or more a month. Last week the News turned up with a buyer who appeared not to be afraid of that fact. Sheldon F. Sackett, publisher of the Coos Bay (Ore.) daily Times, offered to pay $1,525,000 for the News. Sackett paid down a $20,000 deposit and got the signature of News Publisher Robert Smith on an "agreement for purchase" of the paper. To meet...
...relates to the classification of documents," said Brandt, "[which] gave us very little trouble under the Truman Administration." Even if a document had been classified, he argued, newsmen had ready access to Government officials who would give the information they wanted. "The present Administration," said Brandt, "[seems] to be afraid of newspapermen; they don't trust them and they don't realize the position of the newspaper in national life...
Hester is afraid of woodchucks, but the drive is hardly under way when she lets a third party kiss the blackberry stain off her lips and finds she likes it. But it is when Hester goes into an abandoned church with Matthew Avered and tries to seduce him that the real trouble starts...
Dodds admits that "personally I'd like to have a small but good Law School. I'm afraid that it would call for such a large endowment that we'll never get one." He added, however, that he is quite firm in his belief that Princeton has no need for any other schools. Talking with administrative officers and faculty members at Princeton one runs into this latter attitude over and over again. They are quick to point out the relative sizes of their college--2800--and their graduate schools--500--and quick to say they wouldn't want...
...ranking team. But by practice time last week, the whole Notre Dame squad had taken the injunction to heart-and was tossing it back & forth across the field in periodic chants: "Beat Tech! . . . Beat Who? . . . Beat Tech!" As usual, Coach Frank Leahy was moaning low: "I'm just afraid we'll get our blocks knocked...