Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...peasant, but the peasants in the village where he was sent had apparently been overlooked. They lived in mud huts, got bread only when they worked, got seven feet of cloth a year with which to clothe themselves. Bitter and resentful, they never complained, for "everyone is afraid in China." Lo worked 16 hours a day, slept in his clothes to keep warm, did not take a bath for three months. Finally, he hit upon a way to escape...
Female members of the sportswriting profession will be admitted into the Stadium press box next season for the first time, Q. Henry Johnson, sports publicity director, said yesterday. "This Radcliffe penetration into everything else has finally hit us, I'm afraid," Johnson said...
...Although the company came out of World War II wjth 3.7% of world aluminum production, timid sales policies had cut its share to .9%. But it had a reputation for quality, plus substantial assets and a promising moneymaker in its new smelter at Baie Comeau, Canada. Last April, apparently afraid that Reynolds or some other aggressive U.S. concern would buy control, Aluminium's chairman, Viscount Portal of Hungerford. got stockholder approval to boost the firm's shares from 9,000,000 to 13,500,000, sell the extra shares for expansion capital. Portal decided that the U.S. company...
...language admission requirements give respectability to a brief, pointless period of study. "A two-year requirement is worse than none," said Conant. "If there is to be a requirement, it should mean mastery." He continued: "The lip service paid to foreign languages in the high school, is, I am afraid, a direct reflection of lip service paid in the colleges and universities. I strongly suspect that the proficiency in a foreign language that is often required for a bachelor's degree -indeed, for a doctor's degree-is the product of perfunctory timeserving in a minimum number...
Breakfast at Tiffany's, by Truman Capote. The fictional season's most endearing bad little good girl, Holly Golightly, bewildered and a little afraid, in a lot of beds she never made...