Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...crisis proportions, only we do not realize it," says Deak, his Bela Lugosi accent echoing his native Transylvania. The demands for federal spending on welfare and defense are so intense that "various measures taken by Government can affect inflation and the dollar, but only very little. I'm afraid that inflation will increase, and eventually our monetary system will collapse and our social structure will change. I went through all this before-in Hungary, Austria and Germany hi the 1920s-and the trend is inevitable...
...came from Ur already bound his bride, came with my impulsive ways, offering water to the servant and his camel. Why shouldn't I offer? I wasn't afraid. My tongue was a lithe muscle to welcome or harass. I wasn't afraid to come a thousand miles to marry the son of Abraham, join his caravan of vagabonds...
Costanza once called her job "a responsibility, not a title," and declared: "I'm not afraid to lose it. But when I leave I want to be the same person who walked in. I'm not gonna change." That obstinate trait was both a virtue and the reason for her downfall...
...membership; is no friend of Nujoma's. "His big problem is that he is no longer a major force within the country," says Shipanga. "He has been too long on the outside and too reluctant to go back except at the end of a gun. He's afraid now of fighting an election because he knows he will lose...
...Onassis holdings to forestall a Soviet takeover, but they are nonetheless worried about what the Russians might do. "They are sure that one day the romance will be over, and what then?" says a family friend. "Will the Soviets brainwash Christina or somehow confiscate her property? They are afraid the Soviets will swallow...