Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...gone through, their decision was certainly a break in a firm family tradition. Queen Victoria was pleased to leave the education of the future Edward VII in the stern hands of Prince Albert. Since Victoria was still the sovereign when her grandchildren were growing up, and was still afraid of having them mix with other children ("The mischief done by bad boys and the things they may hear and learn from them cannot be overrated"), the future George V was also kept in virtual isolation. It was not until they were 13 that Edward VIII and George VI were sent...
...register their children in such numbers that Communists began to talk about a "holy war." The Warsaw newspaper Trybuna Ludu reported that in a school near Lublin "no child wants to sit beside the daughter of the secretary of the district Party Committee. The children say that they are afraid to sit with a girl who is in alliance with . . . the Devil . . . More and more children who do not attend religious classes are discriminated against and often beaten up . . .In some schools even Party activists and thorough atheists now send their children to religious instruction...
...carrying his argument to an absolute conclusion, Ernst said that he considers all motion picture codes illegal and has been waiting for years to fight them in court but producers are afraid to take code decisions to court...
...modification. (Whether the extreme modification of a few sensibilities, is more importance than a slight modification of many supposedly inferior sensibilities is of no concern here. A debate on the comparative importance of Rimbaud and Anne Lindbergh hangs on the democracy of your taste. (Personally, I am afraid that not even politicians, much less artists, can be both democratic and honest with themselves...
...hope for a non-partisan appraisal of the nation's financial structure rested last week with Democratic Senate Leader Lyndon Johnson. While Johnson is dead set against a strictly presidential commission because he fears that it might be dominated by big business and big banking, he is equally afraid that a House investigation alone might degenerate into bitter partisan battle. To break the impasse, Johnson is pushing for a compromise commission of his own, one-third of whose members would be named by President Eisenhower, with the other two-thirds divided between the House and Senate, somewhat along...