Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know of subversion abroad in our land...It is subversive for commissions like these to spread such hysteria and intimidation throughout the land that Americans are afraid to sign petitions, afraid to read progressive magazines, afraid to make out checks for liberal causes, afraid to join organizations, afraid to speak their minds on public issues . . . this is the destruction of democracy...
...snaring a foolishly ambitious triple in mid-arc. But baseball is also a hungry kid with visions of a big league paycheck waging war in a dusty sandlot game, swallowing the lump in his throat as the big rainbow curve whirs towards his head, wanting to bail out but afraid to do anything but take a big man's cut and slice the air as the rainbow follows down and away for strike three. It is the agony of the minor leagues, letting the sweat trickle down your back in a near-empty stadium in western Massachusetts, struggling to keep...
...Jews are hardly unanimous in their criticisms. Some are afraid that the new ultranationalist Premier-designate Menachem Begin-who will visit Washington next month-may make a settlement all the harder to achieve. Despite their growing unease with Carter, many Jews are still willing to give him the benefit of the doubt. Says Max Palevsky, a top Los Angeles Democratic Party fund raiser: "There haven't been enough attempts at moderation, and any prodding in that direction by Carter, anything that gets movement, is all to the good." But the critics are more numerous and more impassioned. Recalling that...
...Juan Carlos' appointee with a mandate until 1981, Suárez did not have to run at all. He was afraid, however, that the fractured centrist parties would be trounced as voters turned to more dynamic candidates on both left and right, thus recreating the "two Spains" of old. So he stepped in himself. His lieutenants converted the faltering centrist alliance into a coalition composed of Social Democrats, Christian Democrats, liberals and a number of former Franco officials. Although he promised to resign if the U.C.D. lost, the Premier was sensitive to opposition clamor about the unfair advantage his office might...
...urban guerrilla action or terrorism. There have been some individual work stoppages, and it is generally assumed that a one-week strike of the black work force around Johannesburg could shatter or at least severely damage the South African economy. No such strike has happened, because black workers are afraid of reprisals and because they cannot afford a strike, living as they do mostly just above poverty. The government may well keep the lid on for many more years or even decades. As one white editor says, "Soweto riots could just become an annual event." And yet the present situation...