Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will make it has already touched off a hot political argument. Representative Patman and Illinois Senator Paul Douglas, both jealous guardians of congressional prerogatives, have put in their bids for a grand-scale "investigation" by Congress. Many other lawmakers, who know Patman as a longtime foe of FRB, are afraid of just that. As House Minority Leader Joseph Martin says, "Congress could turn the study into a witch hunt," and thus confuse instead of clarify the issues. But the main reason that Congress should not make the study, say many Congressmen, is that the project has too broad a scope...
...Faithful for help when he found he was too badly shaken up to remount, shivered all night after Faithful moseyed off in the wrong direction, gloomily told well-wishers: "I cannot think of anything more harmful for an experienced cowboy than to admit falling off his horse. I am afraid the kiddies will have finished with...
...boiling characterization is what the role of Macbeth deserves. Coral Browne's Lady Macbeth, though, was intense but somewhat bouncy. She looked wrong, except, perhaps, in her sleep-walking scene. To fulfill my demands for the role of Lady Macbeth would take a rare actress, which, I am afraid, Miss Browne is not. John Neville as MacDuff, Jeremy Brett as Malcolm, and Jack Gwillim as Banquo give distinctive performances, and the lesser roles are all handled with unusually thorough skill...
About the only people that aren't satisfied with it are the National Guardians, who are complaining because they are afraid that they will be trained. Of course, the threat of training may well wipe out the National Guard, or a large segment of it. But this only proves that the National Guard is not worth saving, at least in its present form. It is a relic of a Jeffersonian fear of standing armies and in this day should not be given much consideration, especially by Congress. Put up your dukes, General Walsh, we're ready to fight...
...emphasized that the Labor Party would not be afraid to take over the government, even in the present time of crisis, but hesitated to predict the outcome of such an election. "I never believe in being a prophet, still less in being complacent, but it is a fact," he said, "that in recent by-elections there has been a swing away from the conservatives...