Word: fear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Carter did call, but discovered that the telephone tolls were tied up in a complex court action beyond his influence.) To a resident worried about environmental damage from increased coal production, Carter conceded that many people fear that "coal is dirty and will lower the quality of our life." But, the President insisted, "that is not true" and "we can burn twice as much coal in this nation and not lower our environmental standards at all . . . that's what I'm determined to do." He did not, however, discuss the difficult economics of preventing pollution...
...their neighbors fear that the example may be contagious...
...when a force of Islamic revolutionary militiamen called Pasdaran moved in to reimpose the government's authority on the town, which had insisted on running its own affairs. After clashes that took the lives of 13 militiamen and twelve Kurds, Marivan's 10,000 residents left for fear of government reprisals, and many set up camp in the nearby forest. When the army then dispatched a convoy including a dozen American-made M-47 tanks to reinforce the militiamen, men and women from the neighboring town of Kamyaran lay down on the main thoroughfare with their children...
Liberal education and enlightment notwithstanding, "straight" people often speak from their liberal heads and act from their fear-ridden guts. This may explain in the final analysis the recent non-discrimination clause regarding sexual preference passed by the Law School, concomitant with the bigoted actions of the residents of Stoughton and Cambridge...
...delights in the sadistic pedantry of the coaches who see football as a business and players as equipment, and it squirms with pain from beginning to end. For caricatures, the supporting characters are remarkable--they put a lot into their limited parts. G.D. Spradin as Coach Johnson has a fear-inspiring glimmer in his eye and a loud piercing voice; he's an army sergeant who's made it in the big leagues--the private sector. Jo Bob Priddy, the Baby Huey of the team, exudes a grizzly bear cuddliness and enthusiasm that brings his par out of the sterotype...