Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years the propagandists of Peking and Formosa have fought a subsurface battle for the loyalties of Thailand's 3,000,000-odd Chinese. Even though the Communist Party is outlawed by the Thais, the victories mostly seemed to go to the Communists. Afraid of being caught on the wrong side, impressed by Red China's military powers, and on occasion intimidated by ominous warnings from the underground, Chinese oldsters in Thailand have been persuaded to be either cautiously closemouthed or openly sympathetic to the Reds. The biggest victories of all have been won on the impressionable battleground...
Though he had been their pastor for six years, the congregation had a lot to learn about Massachusetts-born Pastor Seastrand, 40. Many a Southern pastor who thinks church segregation un-Christian is afraid to buck his all-white flock to abolish it. Not so Paul Seastrand. "God and one," he said, "is always a majority." Amid some ominous grumblings, he began a persistent campaign to persuade his congregation to "meet the challenge of integration." He preached the Christian view of equality. "It is not my purpose to force on you my own convictions," he said, "but to endeavor...
...scugnizzi, however, were about as interested in talking to a priest as to a policeman. Young Father Borelli decided that he would have to go underground. He took off his cassock, donned a dirty cap, jacket and trousers, and slipped into the jungle of Naples at night. "I was afraid," he admits...
Jacques Monod is a young (29) French conductor who believes that U.S. musical society is awash in stagnation, apathy and confusion. He sees major orchestras playing programs they could have played (and sometimes did) a century before, their musicians bored and cynical, their conductors hamstrung by bosses who are afraid to venture new things and new directions. As a result. Monod complains, contemporary music is almost a secret, played by enthusiasts for themselves, and in programs selected by squabbling committees who try to satisfy factions rather than present balanced music. Lots of people in the music world have complained about...
...wish I could say I don't know what you're talking about," Capp replied, "but I'm afraid I do. I don't think we could run him for president, but I'm sure we could run another bird for vice-president...