Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...What did you say?" he demanded. There was a menacing pause. Khrushchev roared: "Don't be afraid. Say it again!" Brown blurted: "God forgive you." Khrushchev and Brown broke into an angry exchange. Khrushchev reiterated his story of how the war was won; Brown retorted as angrily that thousands of British men were killed in the period when Russia and Hitler were allies...
...Unless we can develop a more powerful offense," he said, "I am afraid we will not be able to improve on last year's record." Pickett placed particular emphasis on the lack of experienced players as the chief weakness of his stickmen. "We are a green team," he said...
...best in our league," said B.U. tennis coach Ed Serus last night, "but tommorow we'll be going against the Ivy League and I'm afraid its going to be a different story." With this statement he summed up quite well the prospects for B.U. when they oppose the Crimson this afternoon on the Soldier's Field courts...
Well might free discussion worry the Communist leaders; when they talked of Stalin's great crime, the obvious question to them was, "Where were you?" and the only answer was, "We were afraid." Such a confession of cowardice, and the implied admission of complicity in Stalin's crimes, hardly enhanced their claims to be leaders...
...Afraid that the Naga revolt may spread to other tribes and give Red China an opening to step in on the disputed Indo-Tibet border, Prime Minister Nehru last week called on the Indian army to join Assam's armed police in an offensive operation against the rebels. Next day Naga terrorists kidnaped seven pro-government villagers in broad daylight, beheaded four of them. In the Assam hills warriors scornfully tore from their colorful costumes the dyed goat hair that they had substituted for human hair. Into its place, once more, went the real thing...