Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...University Police." Bodies of the few remaining opposition lawyers, students and journalists began cluttering up the usually super-sanitary streets. El Caribe laconically reported that one lawyer was found with every bone in his body broken. "Rumor has it," said the paper, "that he was hit by a truck." Afraid of similar "accidents," 14 refugees scuttled to sanctuary in the Venezuelan embassy...
...like giving big courses," he said wearily. "I'm teaching English 7, and this course, English 272, is supposed to be a discussion course. There are two alternatives: this a lecture course and let everybody in, or, second, to limit enrollment. I'm afraid we'll have to take the second. I had hoped to limit it to 25 students, but I see we'll have to take...
Loud Whistle. But things went wrong. Hlasko put in a long-distance call to his sick mother and sister in Warsaw. He reported to a friend: "My mother said she is afraid she will never see me again. What could I tell her?" He became bored with the language lessons and abandoned them. He became a dreaded guest at parties given by Polish emigres. At one he began whistling through his fingers like "a Warsaw hooligan." When another guest proved he could whistle louder, Marek furiously overturned the table, smashing liquor bottles and china. The U.S. foundation quietly backed...
...federation might well have been larger, had it not beea for the opposition of another ambitious African ruler -Felix Houphouet-Boigny, strongman in the Ivory Coast, and the only African of ministerial rank in De Gaulle's government. Houphouet-Boigny is afraid that his Ivory Coast, the richest country in the area, might have to foot most of the bills. He not only kept the Ivory Coast out, but persuaded Niger to stay out, too. His lobbyists were less successful in the Voltaic Republic, though they had recently sent a truckload of wedding gifts to the emperor...
...gotta use a little finesse," said one steel broker. "One summer three men I was tryin' to sell came to town. One man was quite elderly; I was afraid he'd die on me ... When I made my move I found out the two younger men were the ones that had to be impressed. I told the girls there's to be no mention of money ... to just get ga-ga over the whole thing . . . The young men's egos were at the bursting point. The deal netted me about...