Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shlomchik noted that Moses was "exceptionally resistant" from the start. "He was afraid we would fail and then his name would be associated with it," Shlomchik said, theorizing that if Moses had "the guts to support us," he might have prevented SHS's downfall...
...Miranda, 49, as he stepped out of the plane, fist high in the air. Echoed a tearful Oscar Collazo, 67, who had stormed Blair House in an attempt to shoot and kill President Truman in 1950: "I am so happy to be in a place where I am not afraid to express my emotions." (His 45-year-old niece rushed to embrace him, apparently suffered a heart attack, and died minutes later on the way to a hospital.) A third man, Irving Flores Rodriguez, 54, declared that liberty "has to be conquered by blood and fire ... our rights...
...these people, so that we will know how to get the evidence? I can assure you that any abuses will be punished. It is very easy [for people] to make all these accusations and then say that we are afraid to testify. One has to be fair to [the military]. But we can be ruthless and merciless if necessary. We have disciplined more than 3,200 officers and men since...
...TIME, The Weekly News-Magazine." His salary was $40 a week. On the first day of publication in February 1923, Larsen wrote with euphoria and some apprehension to his father: "I am really afraid to go on record as saying TIME has arrived, but the newsboys swear it has and it's their bread and butter." Larsen hired three debutante friends to help him mail the first issues; with amiable incompetence they sent three copies of the magazine to some subscribers and none to many others. For a time there was no desk space for Larsen in the magazine...
...ironically, a woman who was a steering committee member of her CDR spoke vehemently against the Castro regime, saying that if it were not for her elderly mother she would prefer to leave. Although she lowered her voice when criticizing Castro, she apparently was not afraid to complain to a complete stranger who had wandered into her home accidently after seeing a CDR insignia on her door...