Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wide low-pressure area. As it blew north, U.S. weather bureaus warned the Gulf Coast that a dangerously violent storm was on the way. But the bayou people of extreme southwestern Louisiana felt secure in their swamp-girded isolation and their simple faiths ("I wasn't much afraid," said one woman, "because the Lord told us he would never destroy this earth with water again"). Many of them stayed in their homes-and Audrey killed them in a day of sheerest horror...
...boys went down to the graveyard wall, loaded the rifle, sat down and waited for Daniels Sr. They waited for two hours. But when he finally lurched down the street, mounted the steps of his house and sat down, another one of his sons was sitting there. Marty Daniels, afraid he might hit his brother, passed the rifle to Marksman Ray. "Here," he said, "you do the shooting. You're a better shot than I am." Marty's dad was sitting with his knees up to his chest, and Ray allowed that from that distance...
...Never afraid to speak his mind, Weir urged negotiations with the Russians to end the cold war when such talk was unpopular. Meanwhile he steadily pushed National Steel into position as the nation's sixth biggest producer (1956 sales: $664 million). When, after a severe heart attack, he finally stepped down as chairman and chief executive this spring, he was the last U.S. steelman still running a major company he had founded. Last week, at 81, Ernest Tener Weir died in Philadelphia of the infirmities of great...
...message: the love that really matters is not that between men and women, but the love of God. A Roman Catholic convert, she also looses repeated salvos against the materialism of her upbringing. In abandoning Marxism, she has unfortunately retained the hectoring manner of Marxist argument: "You're afraid of the fact that pain is an inevitable adjunct of life, for man as he is at the moment. That fear even leads you to deny the very existence of God Himself. Oh, you don't have to explain. I was brought up to that kind of nonsense...
...that he has been an all-night sucker for the beastly magic of a local witch doctor. Hoping to bridge the gulf between European and African knowledge, he has dabbled in mysterious rites (in one, a man was burned to death by no visible flame) and is now desperately afraid for his soul. The fate of this jungle Dr. Faustus is sealed in what the press calls "the great Clausen scandal." Kenya-raised Novelist Huxley (Red Strangers, The Walled City) has written a literate thriller that is short on gore (despite the unlimited possibilities) and long on insight...