Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Charles Dunn, master of Quincy House, said he is afraid the addition of freshman affiliates would make it too difficult for House staffs to get to know everyone. Several House masters concurred with his reservations...
While still a boy, Carter began planning to escape Plains by going to Annapolis?one place where a farm lad with little cash could get a free education. Afraid that flat feet might rule him out, he used to stand on Coke bottles and roll back and forth to strengthen his arches. His mother?the formidable Miss Lillian?opened his mind to the world of books and ideas, and a schoolteacher named Julia Coleman saw the promise in the youngster and had him struggling gamely through War and Peace at the age of twelve...
...AFRAID OF VIRGINIA WOOLF? An admirable revival, with Colleen Dewhurst and Ben Gazzara, verifies that after 14 years this marital Walpurgisnacht has become part of the permanent canon of U.S. drama...
...gone poorly. Said one Jordan associate: "He did not feel comfortable with her." Although the job was not specifically offered, she ruled out consideration of the U.N. position, and her friends advised her to avoid HEW as being what one called "a bureaucratic snake pit." Some Carter advisers were afraid that if she were given Justice, she might leave as early as 1978 to run for the Senate from Texas. Others questioned whether she had the management ability to run the Justice Department. Despite Young's appointment, blacks were demanding wider representation. As if to prove that...
...whose gruff manner and thick downstate drawl seem right out of In the Heat of the Night. Trouble was, Reporter Charlene Hettinger, 39, and a colleague, Edith Brady, 22, kept running into brick walls as they tried to check the story out. The local townsfolk and officials were afraid to talk. Recalls Hettinger: "We were buffaloed...