Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...grave men gathered in the Cabinet room at 10 Downing Street were confronted with a problem unique in the proud history of Britain: they were afraid that Egypt and Israel would stop fighting and peace would break out in the Middle East. All Monday afternoon, as British paratroops ground down on Port Said and a Franco-British fleet hovered off the canal's mouth, Britain's Cabinet debated tensely. One member pointed out that the man who stepped in to referee a fight would hardly be justified in attacking the boxers if they stopped fighting. There...
...cats was an interpreter in the Culture Ministry who sought out Capote as a fellow artist. "I have my own telephone," boasted the artist. "Among your writers, the powerful one is A. J. Cronin. But Sholikov is more powerful, yes?" The scene in which the Russian is afraid-and afraid to admit he is afraid-to accept a few paperback books from a brother artist is a merciless ly cut cameo of intellectual life in Russia...
Shortly before midnight, two full companies of veteran Chinese Communist infantry slipped across the paddyfields behind a crushing artillery barrage, and struck Pork Chop. Harrold, afraid of seeming overanxious, delayed calling for help; by the time both his men and his superiors were fully alerted, the Chinese had overrun half his battered outpost. The question shot up the chain of command to casualty-conscious headquarters in Tokyo: Did the U.S. want to pay the price for holding Pork Chop, a barren hump of Korean ground only 150 yards across...
...requires a larger sum of money. But the University feels that a big weekend doesn't necessitate a big name band, Robert Minnerly, chairman of the 1956 spring weekend, explained. "They fear the band would send an inferior group of players for an exorbitant sum," Minnerly added. "They're afraid the students will get gypped by big-time promoters." He added that the only way his committee could get money, even for posters, was to have a requisition slip signed by the associate dean of students...
David Lewis, president of the Cammarian Club, Brown's Student Council, also felt that the University was afraid to let the students take too much of a chance with their money. "The students aren't given enough chances to make mistakes," he said...