Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...were afraid we'd be noticed if we didn't cheer," they reported, "but the Eliot House men didn't cheer either. We just clapped when the rest...
Cook Travel Bureau, in Boston, found that many foreign students, afraid they might not be able to get back into the country, once home, are spending Christmas with friends in the United States. Some will stay at the University...
...Other Cheek. He also thought the U.S. should use its A-bomb against the Chinese troops if & when the generals think it militarily practical. "We should not be afraid of it on moral grounds," said Douglas. "You can kill a man just as much with a rifle or a machine-gun bullet ... as you can with an atomic bomb...
There will always be a group of people who are vested with some slight bit of authority who are afraid of the truth, who are afraid of criticism. The threat to your Radcliffe reporter is nothing new. Nor is your striking back with you best weapon of publicity anything new. But what all this does show is that no newspaper, run on the principles taught by democracy, can be anything if it is not allowed to get at the truth and print...
...afraid that isn't true," Sack said...