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Word: afraid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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When Spain's cool, confident Matador Luis Dominguin, 33, was gored four weeks ago, he told friends: "I'll come back as soon as I can stand. I don't want the fans to think I'm afraid of the bulls." Last week, with the horn wound in his right thigh still unhealed, Dominguin went into the ring at Bilbao for another mano a mano with boyish Antonio Ordonez, 27, his brother-in-law, in their current series to decide who is bullfighting's el primero (TIME...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Bloody Sand | 8/31/1959 | See Source »

...McCuistion with black-market purchases of Turkish lire. When McCuistion denied the charge, five Turks began to work him over. For 18 hours he went without water, food or sleep while his captors questioned and "beat me unmercifully. They rabbit-punched me from behind and kicked me. I was afraid they would kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TURKEY: Tortured American Sergeants | 8/24/1959 | See Source »

...lightning. Boy, do I remember that lightning. I never exactly heard the thunder; I felt it. I remember falling through hail, and that worried me; I was afraid the hail would tear the chute. Sometimes I was falling through heavy water-I'd take a breath and breathe in a mouthful of water. Sometimes I had the sensation I was looping the chute. I was blown up and down as much as 6,000 feet at a time. It went on for a long time, like being on a very fast elevator, with strong blasts of compressed air hitting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Nightmare Fall | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

Getting Warmer. "At one point I got seasick and heaved. I went up and joined the chute. It draped over me like a sheet, and I was afraid that when I blossomed again, I'd be tangled in the shrouds and risers. But I wasn't, thank God. At last, I realized I was getting warmer. The air was smooth. And rain was falling on me. I figured I was down to 300 or 500 feet. I told myself, 'All I have to do now is make a good landing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEROES: The Nightmare Fall | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

...with the belated demand for shots running ahead of estimates, North Carolina was out of vaccine. Rated as distressed areas qualifying for priority on new shipments: Iowa, Kansas. Missouri, Alabama, Texas, Arkansas, South Dakota and Oklahoma. Emergency redistribution of supplies is difficult because anybody who has enough vaccine is afraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Polio Storm | 8/17/1959 | See Source »

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