Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...American woman really has no desire to look beautiful, or else she would not spend so much time eating rich foods. The U.S. is rapidly producing painted women who are but shells of bleached and dyed hair, and aglow with exotic scents. They are afraid to face themselves as they...
...Americans are most anxious to be loved abroad, that they feel their lack of "roots" too desperately ("The worst scoundrel in Europe has roots"), that if success does not come at once, discouragement sets in. He believes that, influenced by a "popularized, anonymous positivistic philosophy," too many Americans are afraid to hold strong opinions. Maritain makes a profound observation about tolerance: "The man who says 'What is truth?', as Pilate did, is not a tolerant man, but a betrayer of the human race. There is . . . genuine tolerance only when a man is firmly and absolutely convinced...
...meets a dizzy blonde (Kim Novak). When she goes round in circles, he goes round in circles too-until he falls. Jimmy is cast as a gumshoe who has drawn the enviable assignment of keeping a private eye on Kim. The lady's husband (Tom Helmore) is afraid that his bride, in the grip of a suicidal depression, may head for the deep six, and one day she literally does take a leap into San Francisco Bay. Detective Stewart saves her from the drink and takes her home for coffee-with sugar. Soon he is crazy about the girl...
...their part. Catholics have a "growing sense of security" and are "no longer afraid of the American Protestant." Catholics have also "expanded intellectually," said Jesuit Weigel, "even though pure intellectualism is not yet a popular Catholic vocation. Ancient bogies and the ghosts of former times have been destroyed. The Catholic is now perfectly ready to associate with the Protestant with affection and trust...
Outside, the handful of escort police hung back. Brutally manhandled by vengeful mobs after the overthrow of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jiménez last January, they seemed afraid to tackle bloodthirsty civilians again. One U.S. Secret Service man threw himself across the back window of Nixon's car to protect it from stones and clubs. Others pulled at a stubborn student lying under the car's front wheels. The howling mob tried to overturn...