Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...because Congress has so persistently lost face with us by enforcing the will of minorities, at our expense? We have inflation because Congress insists on spending, spending, spending, to gratify special interests. We have billion-dollar mountains of farm surplus because that woos the farm groups. The Solons are afraid to curb the corruption of labor leaders because they control votes. Firm civil rights legislation can and would be talked to death by minority filibustering...
...this old earth ready for Kiesler's structures such as "Endless House" [May 25], which are not premeditated by the prerequisites of conventional planning to secure the bank loan and a dogmatic facade for thy neighbor's sake? American suburbia still says no, I'm afraid...
...sick about the rabbit that Eddie realized he would lose his son's respect, not to mention his own self-respect, if he did not go back and let it out. But the boss was in such a flap about the job that Eddie was afraid to take the day off and make the trip. In the end Eddie had to make the hard old choice between position and principle, between making a living and making a life. And so at last the rabbit got out of the trap...
...such a well-tended garden that it was almost a crime for a child to pick a flower -the De Beauvoirs tried to maintain rather than seek status. A soso lawyer. Papa was worldly, intelligent and a gifted amateur actor. Convent-bred Mama was pious, temperamentally capricious, and terribly afraid of making a social gaffe. When the couple engaged in loud-voiced wrangles, little Simone was bitterly disillusioned; parents were not gods, but common clay. At eight, the embryo novelist wrote a woefully sentimental saga about The Misfortunes of Marguerite...
...places he encountered. The Godstone of the book's title is an idol for controlling weather and crop fertility, reportedly venerated as late as this century, and White was determined to unravel the mystery of its origin. Mainland oldsters remembered the idol, all right, but they were evasive, afraid that White would impugn their Catholicism with a report of pagan behavior. In the end, the author reports mischievously, the Godstone turned out to be the stone pillow of an early saint...