Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...children themselves none of this was as important as the prospect of a blacked-out Christmas. They planned to trim the bare steel girders of the big underground shelters and to set up Christmas trees, to have carols and mince pie. But the youngest moppets were afraid that London's anti-aircraft crews might shoot at Santa Claus...
...musical comedy And no one laughed. The director went out and said "What's the matter? Don't you like it? Why don't you laugh? Why don't you clap?" An old lady said "We'd like to laugh but we're afraid to interrupt the living actors It don't seem polite. We'd like to clap, but we don't know when. We don't at the pictures...
Personally, I was afraid such would be the case...
...Never be afraid to tell a child you don't know the answer to a question...
Diplomacy had one other interest in the Henderson copper deal this week. Chile is afraid of great British Rhokara and Katanga mines in Africa, whose lower labor costs enable them to produce for as little as 2½?a pound. To protect Chile against being crowded by Africa in the new tariff-circumventing U. S. market, the British may recognize the U. S.'s special hemispheric relationship with Chile, agree to forget about the U. S. market...