Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Carmichael was undecided as to what response he should make. Then, intelligence sources said, he received a call from the Cuban press agency Prensa Latina in New York, after which he appeared on Washington streets waving a pistol and urging blacks to arm. "A lot of people who were afraid to pick up guns will now pick up guns," he said later. "They clearly made a mistake when they killed Dr. King. It would have been far better if they killed Rap Brown or myself. Then they could have said that 'they lived by the sword and they died...
...Chinese professor from the University of Pennsylvania explained emotionally why he was afraid of communism. Another scholar, Dr. Huynh K. Khanh, who left South Vietnam in 1955, said that the Thieu-Ky regime is "nothing." He said he would like to see his country "taken out of this senseless ideological struggle." "You don't have to be a Communist," he added, "to see destruction and human suffering...
...want to get a complete spectrum of the black community, in a group legitimized by the black community, to speak with the administration," said Charles J. Hamilton Jr. '69, a member of the committee. Black students were afraid that the administration might decide to discuss its views with individual students who are not representative of the black community, Hamilton said. He added that he "couldn't have chosen a more diverse and a more representative group" than the ten students elected yesterday...
...able to share with his family and only most intimate circle of coworkers almost incredible reservoirs of fortitute for just such tragic moments as these; and little of this strength is ours. His death for them is a station on an inexorable road to redemption; while it leaves us afraid and desolate...
...inherently a far-out composer, Kraft, 44, obviously is not afraid to be bold theatrically. The huge rear screen, on which the films were projected, was not the only innovation. At the end of the first movement, Kraft provided a brief interlude of jazz in which a solo violinist and snare drummer were picked out by spotlights in the darkened hall. Then at the end, he bid the audience a cheerful adieu with the rippling tinkle of an offstage jazz quartet...