Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the story opens, Herb Fuller has just been killed in a car crash, and studio bigwigs are arranging the funeral: "First off we thought of St. Patrick's ... an ideal place . . . They were nice about it, but they wouldn't buy. I think they were afraid of the crowds, but the clincher for them was that Herb wasn't a Catholic...
...been a rich life, the success story of a frail, skinny kid who used to be afraid of automobiles but grew up to become the "bravest man in the Air Force." It is the achievement of a physician with enough wit and wisdom left over to be something of a poet, humorist and philosopher as well...
...anything if you want them safe." Powell left. "I called home at 8 a.m. Stella was all right. He was there, with the gun on her. I called again in the afternoon. Everything was the same. All day I wanted to call the police. But I was so afraid something would happen to Stella and the kids. I worked like normal. I worked through...
Says Actor Robert Mitchum, cinema's No. 1 problem child: "Frank is a tiger-afraid of nothing, ready for anything. He'll fight anything. Here's a frail, undersized little fellow with a scarred-up face who isn't afraid of the whole world...
...into the 40-below cold "like a bartender bouncing a drunk." Most of the witnesses themselves helped recreate the odor of P.W. Camp 5 on placid Governors Island. Did you not protest, or try to stop it? they were asked. "No, sir,'' came hesitant replies, "I was afraid to get thrown out myself ... I couldn't help myself ... I didn't want to freeze to death." Next day, outside the hut, the two men were found "stiff, blue and dead." The mother of one of them sat in the hearing room, following the testimony closely, just...