Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friend who had moved to the West still goes home once a month to visit his parents. He is always afraid something amiss will happen, but one day Erich took me with him. The Mullers did not know an American was coming, and they were frightened when I was introduced but very gracious. The table in their dingy living-room was soon filled with cakes and cookies, and we began to talk...
...security. As a result, said Hagerty, the cards will be called in and altered. Hagerty's order, urged by the Secret Service, was not aimed primarily at preventing Communists from forging the cards, since they already are legally entitled to three of the four. The Secret Service was afraid that crackpots, confidence men, or would-be assassins could easily forge the cards from the picture, thus use them to gain entrance to the White House or to open doors elsewhere...
...Dubois' most devoted supporters still pleaded for him with Cardinal Saliège. Last week came word from the cardinal's office. "It's a sad case," said the Rev. Marius Garail, canon of the Toulouse archbishopric. "The boy is to be pitied, for I am afraid he will suffer very much. The ecclesiastical authorities were very lenient and waited as long as they could, but there was no other possible action for them to take...
...American . . . is afraid of ranking himself too high; still more is he afraid of being ranked...
...climbed, fitted in well with W. & L.'s character: dignified, with a folksy touch. Talbott predicts a 2½% to 3½% boost in total U.S. retail sales this year over 1954's booming over-the-counter business. But he cautions: "I'm a little afraid of complacency...