Word: aerophobia
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...ablutophobia: fear of bathing acarophobia: ... itching acerophobia: ... sourness achluophobia: ... darkness acousticophobia: ... noise acrophobia: ... heights aerophobia: ... drafts, air agliophobia: ... pain agoraphobia: ... open spaces agrizoophobia: ... wild animals agyrophobia: ... crossing the street aichmophobia: ... needles and other pointed objects ailurophobia: ... cats albuminurophobia:.. .kidney disease alektorophobia: ... chickens alliumphobia: ... garlic allodoxaphobia: ... opinions amathophobia: ... dust amaxophobia: ... riding in a car ambulophobia: ... walking amychophobia: ... being scratched anablephobia: ... looking up androphobia: ... men anemophobia: ... wind Anglophobia: ... Britain anthophobia: ... flowers antlophobia: ... floods anuptaphobia: ... staying single apeirophobia: .... infinity apiphobia: ... bees arachibutyrophobia: ... peanut butter sticking to roof of mouth arachnophobia: ... spiders arithmophobia: ... numbers asthenophobia: ... fainting astrophobia: ... celestial space ataxiophobia: ... muscular incoordination ataxophobia: ... untidiness...
Whatever its motives, Fort Worth-based American could profit handsomely from an industry shake-out. Staggered by the recession, constant fare fights and a global epidemic of aerophobia growing out of last year's Persian Gulf conflict, U.S. airlines have lost more than $6 billion since 1990. American has been no exception: its parent company, AMR, has lost a combined $279 million in the past two years. All that has led Crandall to predict that the number of major carriers will continue to shrink. Says he: "I think there is probably some consolidation left to happen...
...jittery "takes" the orchestra rushed to telephones: it was Wall Street's "Black Friday" in September 1929. Conductor Joy has had an arranger (Cornetist Del Staigers) who once, everyone swears, fell asleep on an arranging job, completed it satisfactorily before he woke. There was a trumpeter who had aerophobia (fear of high places); Mr. Joy had to hire the trumpeter's wife to soothe him in a 23rd-floor studio. Between these diplomatic feats, Leonard Joy picks names for pieces by inarticulate musicians (sample: Child of a Disordered Brain for an Earl Hines piano number) and looks...
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