Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...activity on Capitol Hill was being carefully monitored by the White House. Jimmy Carter postponed a planned weekend trip to Camp David and Press Secretary Jody Powell quipped that "the President's afraid to leave town." Domestic Adviser Stuart Eizenstat patrolled outside the conference room, lobbying for Carter's position that an increased share of the tax relief go to lower-and middle-income taxpayers. Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal was consulting constantly with Congressmen; among other things, he warned them that a tax bill would be vetoed if it contained, as the Nunn amendment did, "restraints" on future...
...Appleton has a fat file marked BIG K (for kooks) groaning with the barely legible, highly paranoid ramblings of the city's loneliest losers; he answers their missives with phone calls in hopes that they can better explain themselves viva voce. Says he: "I'm always afraid that somewhere in there a guy has a real problem, and maybe I'm his last resort...
...children had gone to school, that I just felt that horrible feeling inside. I was frightened. I mean, on the one hand I wanted to go, because I was always intimidated by the various people around me, but I was really frightened of going back to school. I was afraid of the responsibility, of what it would mean. But I also knew that at the same time there was something in me; I just didn't feel right about not doing anything, not achieving anything. So I took the plunge, and I applied to Harvard." --Katiti K. Jean-Baptiste...
...speak with your whole body, you are dull." There was "nothing more dull than the Carter-Ford debates," he said, adding that both participants were afraid to make some nonverbal mistake...
...This was Aleman's story when questioned by committee investigators in March 1977, and it seemed to lend credence to a theory that mobsters had plotted to kill J.F.K. because of his Administration's crackdown on organized crime. But Aleman, admitting that he was afraid of Trafficante's wrath, remembered differently last week. The mobster, he testified, probably meant only that Kennedy would be hit by Republican votes in 1964, not bullets...