Word: afraid
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Only Human. In St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, as afraid as the next man of going to a dentist's office, Dentist Ptolemy Corbiere sat down and, guided by a hand-mirror, extracted his own upper rear molar...
...Eastern Berlin's Ober-Schoneweide suburb. Six Soviet soldiers escorted him to the second floor suite usually reserved for Russian generals. The Communist Radio Berlin said Grotewohl had the grippe. Privately, top Communist leaders said he had a nervous breakdown. According to Berlin gossip, Grotewohl had long been afraid that the Russians were out to liquidate him as politically unreliable, for weeks had kept his lights burning all night in his Berlin residence. One morning he reportedly found Comrade Ulbricht riffling through his mail in his office and promptly went into a screaming rage. East German President and Communist...
...likes Americans but he is slightly afraid of tackling large groups of them, partly because of language difficulties. So far he has been to only two Boston parties; once there, he charmed everyone he met. He likes to take short walks around the neighborhood with his Welsh terrier...
...almost 40 years when his curiosity about the tombs finally got the better of him. One night while the nuns were safely asleep, Garcia pried open one of the coffins with a heavy metal hook. After fishing around patiently, he pulled out a fragment of gold brocade. Then, afraid of a sound scolding from the abbess, he hid his find, kept his secret to himself. Finally Garcia confided in Archeologist José Luis Monteverde, curator of national property. Monteverde communicated with Madrid and a joint committee of medieval experts, headed by 80-year-old Gomez Moreno, eventually succeeded in getting...
Replete with its discussion of academic freedom, the play moves along easily until the final scene. The professor has been accused of "agitating the mentality of his students;" Miss George claims that this is good, but the bishop is afraid. A scheme to bring pressure upon the bishop has been plotted by Miss George, and, as the results appear, she hovers over them like a mother hen. Here the important element of anxiety is overplayed...