Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...afraid I must be quite sadistic about the whole matter of "old thought control" (the television industry's nickname for IBM) and ask, if uncharitably, why doesn't the clock on its world headquarters here work on schedule? Perhaps a small gremlin with imagination has whispered in the ears of a regimented salesman or punch operator and said "THINK...
...pocket and paddled away. But joy soon changed to anxiety. For some of the miners who saw the stone said it was a rare gem worth $600,000 or more, but others scoffed that it was only an industrial diamond worth a bare $4,000. Afraid to test his luck, Agustín kept his big stone for two agonizing months. Word of the find spread. Newspapers debated names for a gem destined to rank with the Cullinan and the Hope; they settled on the Evangelist...
Most of the villagers were afraid to help the Bagos, but one sympathetic Austrian bound up their wounds, and the authorities got them to a hospital. The doctors had barely finished removing the mine splinters when a squad of Russians appeared to demand their return. Istvan begged the Austrian doctors to kill him rather than send him back. The hospital chief warned the Russians that any move might be fatal to the injured. Unheeding, the Russians loaded all four of the Bagos into a waiting ambulance, snatching away the bananas and oranges which nurses pressed into little Maria...
...while awaiting the DeMille design, Secretary Talbott sent out a memo suggesting that all hands play down the Hollywood angle. "It's getting out of hand; people better understand that we're still making the final decision, not Hollywood." Cracked an academy officer: "We've been afraid people would think our cadets were going to carry spears...
...want to increase its share of the market to 60%, or was it afraid of becoming a monopoly? Answered Curtice: "We have to keep aggressively competitive in all areas in order to keep sure of maintaining even our position." To show what he meant, Curtice predicted that by 1962 auto registrations will rise 30%, with a gross national product of $500 billion. Then Capehart spoke up again. The line of questioning, it seemed to him, had nothing to do with the stock market. Snapped Fulbright: "You have no right continually to criticize my questions." But Capehart disagreed. "I am going...