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Word: fear (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...element of drama which the interjects is more apropos to hospital scenes than to the laboratory. But her tear jerking little stories about women who are too modest to submit to examination and girls who must lose their ovaries are overly melodramatic. Such writing might increase the popular fear of cancer rather than control...

Author: By Edward C. Haley, | Title: Misinformation On Cancer | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

White has also given voice to a vague fear which may cling to the pride which New Yorkers take in their town, a fear which "sticks in all our heads...

Author: By John G. Simon, | Title: New York: Loving Analysis | 12/15/1949 | See Source »

...great distinction between the majority of these countries and the United States, of course, is that their radio stations are subject to direct government control. This means program planners can give listeners what they ought to have rather than what they want, without fear of detrimental consequences. In this country, few sponsors have the courage to sponsor a direct form of education because they know their chances of holding listeners are better if they give away ice-boxes or tell how a woman can enjoy life beyond...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radio Education | 12/14/1949 | See Source »

...probably two years-it will be set up, so that they can include it in their strategic plans for Western Europe's defense. In the meantime, they propose through M.A.P. to build up the Atlantic pact nations-particularly the French-so that they will have no reason to fear an armed Germany...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Arm the Germans? | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

...make any such abridgements, to put restrictions on what an organization can do, or what it can say, or where it can meet. A rule forbidding discrimination, which might be a good rule, can set up a fine precedent for regulating polities or policies, a precedent that we fear...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Wedge | 12/12/1949 | See Source »

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