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...America, but did he really? A Colombian diplomat and historian, Germán Arciniegas does not ask the question in his Amerigo and the New World, but the reader is bound to. Columbus boldly sailed through the curtain of fear and superstition that had kept men from trying the dread Atlantic crossing. But he died believing that he had reached Asia, never accepted the fact that the New World was really another continental land mass. The first man to name it the New World was the Florentine navigator and businessman Amerigo Vespucci; at least, according to Author Arciniegas, he also...
...Hingham were a philosopher instead of a life-insurance salesman, he might sum himself up by saying: "I dread, therefore I am." The realest thing about young Hal, a tenth-rate agent for Arcadia Life, is the queasy feeling in the pit of his stomach when he faces his boss, his girl, or anyone else. As he somnambulates through life with a nagging sense of being out of step, people bump into him as if he were invisible, and prospects look out the window when he wants them to sign on the dotted line. Snaps his girl friend Rose...
Airplane designers are confident that many jet airliners will be flying some day, but they dread the reception they will get from people living near airports. The noise of four or six big jet engines has to be heard to be believed. If not reduced in some way, the noise will drive strong men to desperation for miles around the runways...
...across it. After the disaster they went over their data on conditions before the storm and found a "peculiar pattern." Five days later they came to their office, took a look at the day's charts and saw the same weather pattern. They did not dare use the dread word "tornado," but they told key men about their hunch that a tornado was coming. Tinker Field got a forecast of an 80-m.p.h. wind, which ensured all possible precautions. Less than seven hours after the warning, the "pattern" delivered the goods: a tornado that ripped right across Tinker Field...
...modern-day comic book, the informer has traditionally been the object of peculiar contempt on the part of his fellow citizens. Perhaps this hatred of the man who betrays his fellows has reached its height in the United States--from childhood on, almost every. American absorbs a dread of "tattling". The emotion has become deeply ingrained in our society...