Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Force has been so bedeviled by reports of flying saucers (the little-men-from-Venus kind) that it is almost afraid to talk about saucer-shaped aircraft. Last week Secretary of the Air Force Donald A. Quarles released a few well-guarded words about a vertically rising jet-craft that will soon be tested by Ryan Aeronautical Co. of San Diego. He admitted that it might be mistaken for some sort of flying saucer...
...Fire. Between times, the delegates uncertainly considered the future. "Labor's afraid of prosperity," warned the miners' Sam Watson. "Maybe we did found the party out of bitterness and hardship, but those days are gone. Our task now is to learn to enjoy plenty." The party executive's best proposal was a three-year study to shape policy on specific problems. "That's a fat lot of fire to take home to the boys," grumbled one delegate. "Lump of suet dough, that's what I call...
...heart attack, and many U.S. papers carried it the day Ike was stricken. Last week the Fund for the Republic decided Herblock was too hot to handle, canceled his TV show. Official reason: he is too political. By permitting him to take sides in political controversies, the Fund was afraid it might lose its tax-exempt status...
...Italy it is called Polvere di Stelle, and ranks with O Sole Mio as an alltime favorite. In Japan it is called Sutaadasuto, and is one number record stores are not afraid to overorder. In England, where professionals call it a "gone evergreen," no song has sold more copies. In the U.S. it is called Stardust, and is the nation's most durable hit-comfortable as an old shoe, and yet rare as a glass slipper...
Best of All. By 1933 most people seemed to be singing Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?, but a 20-year-old Indiana girl, mortally wounded in a shooting, asked to have Stardust played at her funeral. Three years later the record business was stirred almost as deeply, when RCA Victor dared to release the song on two sides of a pop single, one played by Benny Goodman, the other by Tommy Dorsey. It was Victor's best seller in 1936 and '38, was still going strong a year later...