Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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SOME of us were a little afraid that perhaps the revealing cover story on Michigan State Football Coach Duffy Daugherty and the detailed diagrams of some of his key plays (TIME, Oct. 8) might have given powerful Michigan the edge to win again this year. Gamblers around New York made Michigan a 2½-to-5-point favorite, but Duffy's team knocked over the Wolverines (see SPORT) and now appear headed for another Big Ten title...
...biocontrol have already been demonstrated . . . Direct current of the required waveform and intensity passed through [a man's] head . . . changes his sense of balance, and he leans to one side . . . Other experimenters have shown that rats and dogs may be made to feel hungry just after eating, or afraid when they had nothing to fear, simply by injecting the appropriate neural currents into the central nervous system of the animal...
...stigma? In an earnest effort to avoid that, Sophomore Vice President Robert Hillier announced that he would accept no bids from any club, but would join the university's facility and bring "60 or 70 of the good men in the class" along with him. "Everyone's afraid that the facility will become a dumping ground," said he. "Someone has to make the move to destroy the stigma that will result if only 100 Percenters join the facility...
...with his jacket off. A young girl, evidently injured in a fall from her bike, comes limping down to the river's edge. When the girl stumbles and falls into a whirl pool, all of Jean Berthier's character flaws jump into action at once. He is afraid of waking up his fiancee; she might become frightened. He is afraid to jump into the river; the whirlpool might be dangerous...
...sure millions like me, think of the "family group" that will inhabit the White House. Looking at photographs of the various families, I, at least, return to Mamie and Ike. Those Stevenson boys with their toothy smiles are altogether too Ivy-Leaguish, and the aunt, I'm afraid, would be terribly officious. Mrs. Kefauver, at least on the '52 try, was also too much in evidence-pert and pushy. No, let's keep Mamie, who, with her naturalness, is also self-effacing and lets Ike run his side of the show. Another thing. The old talk...