Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arrest all his top opponents as Communists or fellow travelers, and they knew it. Says Magsaysay: "Quirino even talked about killing Tañada. I wouldn't have anything to do with all this, because these men, whatever they may be, are not Communists. They were all afraid to run. They thought Quirino would have them assassinated. So they all stayed in their foxholes and told me to take my Tommy gun and go out and fight for them." Privately, for all his public charges, Recto concedes that the Nationalists had to pick Magsaysay...
...laughed and cheered. It was 6 p.m. before his car pulled into the palace again. "You don't know what it means to look at the faces in the barrios," he said. "People smile now. It's only six years since no one smiled and everyone was afraid of his neighbor...
Everybody told Sam Bernstein that his boy was a born musician?which was exactly what Sam was afraid of. He thought of the musicians he had known as a boy in Russia as klezmer, the ghetto pagliacci, living from one free meal to the next, and he shuddered for his son's future...
...Left Out. In Cairo last week. Nasser acted like a man frantically afraid he was being left out. With Saud about to arrive, he hastily called his ally, Premier Sabri el Assali of Syria. Young King Hussein flew over from Jordan. Nasser's purpose: to talk them into replacing the subsidy Britain has for so long paid Jordan to support its Arab legion and base troops there. Nasser obviously feared that, with U.S. help under the Eisenhower doctrine. Saud might do it alone, forming a U.S.-backed partnership with Jordan that had no place for Nasser. It took Nasser...
...celebrated bullfighter Dominguin was here last week in the same predicament, and when we asked him for proof, he took a cape and made a pass with it, and we knew at once that he was Dominguin." Franco pondered the problem for some minutes, then said: "I'm afraid I can think of nothing." "Take the necklace," said the shopkeeper. "You must be Franco...