Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Harvard Square minister characterized student belief as "a general drift of thinking in all, but including a great deal of individual variation." Certainly most Protestants do not exhibit orthodoxy in their religious thinking--they are not afraid to question their beliefs and to abandon many that seem untenable in the face of the rationalism and intellectualism of the College community...
...incessantly, "I seek God! I seek God!" As many of those who do not believe in God were standing around just then, he provoked much laughter. Why, did he get lost? said one. Did he lose his way like a child? said another. Or is he hiding? Is he afraid us?...Thus they yelled and laughed. Then the madman jumped into their midst and pierced them with his glances...
...pushed within seven miles of Samneua City, telling villagers that it was futile for them to flee to the provincial capital since it would be in Communist hands in a matter of days. General Amkha seemed to agree. To cheer up his downcast aides, he cracked: "I am more afraid of Tokyo taxicabs than of the Communists." But his seven battalions, numbering more than 4,000 men, were dispersed in the surrounding countryside, and he apparently had no intention of making a do-or-die stand in the city. "No barbed wire, no trenches," he said. "With those you lock...
...iridescent outlanders -Elvis Presley and Liberace-and not too surprisingly added a member of Britain's Establishment, chronically rumpled Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. But one nominee was as shocking as plaid socks with a dinner jacket: the Duke of Windsor. The editor's appraisal: "I'm afraid he's got older, and fashion is really a young person's thing. Maybe it's the influence of the Western Hemisphere...
...roamed India with her actor father, joined his touring company at the age of seven, was singing Indian classical music in public at eight, was barely 13 when she landed her first playback job. For a while, producers managed to keep her ignorant of her growing popularity. "They were afraid I would ask for more money," she explains. Eventually Lata caught on. By 1949 her movies were all over the country, and her songs were played everywhere, including remote rural areas where villagers clustered around wind-up gramophones listening to Lata until all that could be heard from the records...