Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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During his years at the Treasury, Surrey helped formulate tax reform proposals, including several which administrators at Harvard and other universities fear would damage their fund-raising efforts...
Pushed against the railings of the churchyard and the church walls, the believers, far from objecting, look around nervously for fear of getting a knife in the back, or of having their watches stolen-the watches on which they keep track of the remaining minutes before the Resurrection of Christ. Here, outside the church, they, the Orthodox, are much fewer than the grinning, milling rabble who oppress and terrorize them more than ever did the Tartars. The Tartars, surely, would have let up for Matins on Easter Sunday...
...carries a pole topped by a heavy cut-glass lantern with a candle inside. He glances apprehensively up at the lantern, anxious to keep it steady, and as apprehensively from side to side. This-this is the picture I would paint if I knew how! What does the verger fear? That the builders of the new society will fall upon the Christians, that they will beat them up? The onlookers share his fear...
...Memphis hotel-room bed. There, he held court for fascinated newsmen and expounded his theories about the declining art of criminal-law practice. Most of today's young lawyers, he said, are much too gutless to take on criminal cases. "They are afraid to leave the library for fear they'll make a public ass of themselves in court." Perhaps it is because of this shortage of guts that Percy Foreman has recently had some second thoughts about retiring...
...wage talks between unions and the government, he went on TV and condemned the strikers as "agitators" and "plotters" whose tactics "threaten to sink the currency, the economy and the republic." De Gaulle told France: "Need I declare that they will all be defended?" He had good reason to fear any thing resembling the massive strikes that caused chaos in France last spring...