Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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More specifically, Korn decried the HYRC's methods as "detrimental to the name of Republicanism." He particularly attacked its charges that the Forum is stacked against the Republican viewpoint. "This is completely unsubstantiated," Korn maintained. "The HYRC is simply afraid to debate Republicanism before the Forum...
Your reviewer was flippant in his Feb. 20 review of The Search for Bridey Murphy, and indicated that he was afraid to face the issues involved. Although they have not had time to check all of Bridey's story about her life in Ireland in the last century, there is little, if anything, which the searchers have found to contradict...
...fact that Thailand's police force is larger than its army indicates that the government is more afraid of internal subversion than of external attack. Paradoxically, Phao's police partially support the subversion which they are meant to oppose because communists justify their attacks on government "oppression" by pointing to the force's size. In return, Phao maintains that these subversive attacks make the large number of police necessary. Actually, most observers believe Phao maintains his corps chiefly to insure his position...
Last month, afraid that an all-round wage hike would whip Israel's cantering inflation into a gallop, the government reneged on a promise to raise professionals' pay. The professionals had taken all they could: 8,000 of them went on strike. Doctors, judges, lawyers, engineers, teachers and civil servants walked out of clinics, courtrooms, lecture halls and government offices, leaving the untrained and unskilled to fend for themselves. Said striking professors at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem: ''The future of Israel in the Middle East depends on its position as a state highly developed...
...Here you have the alarming spectacle of parents being terrified of their children Instead of using their paternal and maternal instincts, parents rely on cheap books about psychiatry-which they don't understand-and are afraid to repress the child. The result is that the child runs the home...