Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Chicago Daily News's William McGaffin raised an issue never before put to a President in public. Many of Ike's old friends in Gettysburg, said McGaffin, although anxious to return him to office, "feel you have done enough for the nation, and they are afraid that you won't last out; they are afraid you won't live for another four years...
...make the battle of the sexes seem so grueling a fight to the finish. Bitter Honeymoon contains eight stories, and like most of Moravia's writing they raise an interesting question about the author: Does he really know a lot about women, or is he just terribly afraid of them? Probably the answer is: both. He knows them well enough to make male readers remember their own worst defeats, to convince women that he has no business exposing their most appalling characteristics. One thing is certain: to Moravia love and sex are indispensable tortures...
...common language I'm afraid we'll never...
...windows, his black face sweating in the sun. With his own hands he had laid the foundations four years before, and raised $3,000 in pennies to build it. When at last he went inside, he found about $800 worth of damage. Even worse, everyone but the pastor was afraid to set foot within the building for fear that Tikoloshe might still be there...
After reading a Commerce Department survey of 35,000 stores, which showed that retail sales for June soared to a record $16.6 billion, some 4% better than the June peak in 1955, a Commerce Department economist said: "The U.S. consumer is not afraid of anything...