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...other baby dies at birth-she found herself in the midst of a bloody pitched battle between East London's white cops and a mob of tribesmen. The police had broken up an illegal Negro prayer meeting; the result was a race riot which blazed for seven hours. Unafraid, Sister Aidan (real name: Dr. Elsie Quinlan) drove through the police lines and greeted her Negro friends. Some of them tried to shield her, but a howling mob, chanting "Africa!" dragged her, unresisting, from her car, cut her throat, and burned her mutilated corpse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: SOUTH AFRICA: Them or Us | 11/24/1952 | See Source »

During World War II, when some swans disappeared, there were ugly rumors that black-marketeers were conking them with clubs and selling them to shady restaurants where they were dished up as geese. Since then, under the increased vigilance of Thameside bobbies, the swans have sailed up & down, unafraid, wherever the whim took them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: A Credit to the King | 8/13/1951 | See Source »

...walk the streets unafraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MACARTHUR STORY: Five Star Firing | 6/25/1951 | See Source »

...just as important are "a kind heart, an understanding experience, and something approaching at least a speaking acquaintanceship with the Almighty. One of the most important accomplishments of the obstetrician," Bloss concludes, "is his ability to guide the patient so that she shall approach the time of her delivery unafraid...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Without Fear | 1/1/1951 | See Source »

...Young Pianist Eugene Istomin was more articulate. His admiration did not stem from "the musical facts I may learn from Casals. It is the reinforcement of an attitude that is so inspiring. He stands for everything that is noble and sublime in music, and you feel unafraid to express it yourself after you have met this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pleasure in Prades | 6/12/1950 | See Source »

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