Word: feare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...including a California man and an Australian woman who met and married in the interim, had enjoyed their isolation. But most were glad to be towed in the pineapple barge last week, two miles out to the Matson liner Monterey, whose captain had refused to enter the harbor for fear of losing his crew. They left Hawaii in a state of what its Governor Joseph B. Poindexter called "very grave emergency." No one was starving, but Hawaii imports 55% of its food and after three weeks supplies were running dangerously low, food prices rocketing. As it neared...
...London, for fear of "civil commotion in the ports," Lloyd's quadrupled its insurance rates on freight in the U. S. coastal trade...
...true wild Russian stock. This week, however, in a new batch of huntsmen, two Knoxvillites named Carey House and Hugh Vandeventer killed an authentic Russian 250-pounder which suddenly dropped after rushing "so close that we were unable to shoot during the latter part of his charge for fear of hitting each other...
Thus lined up was a perfect example of a legal situation familiar in every state. Many a motorist has refused a ride to a hitch-hiker for fear of being liable for damages which might occur to him. Many another driver whose guests have been hurt has colluded with them to make the insurance company pay. Drivers with stricter codes of behavior have often been saddled by suits from erstwhile friends. Publicized more than most such cases be cause of the prominence of its participants, the final decision in the McCann-Hoffman suit last week illuminated the status and trend...
...Worried, Caulaincourt hustled Ragusa into a carriage and carried him on to Paris. The emissaries stopped at Allied field headquarters on the way. There Ragusa raced to the Allied commander alone, conferred secretly, then smugly announced that his private negotiations had been broken off. Caulaincourt was getting sick with fear. Afraid to let the miserable Ragusa out of his sight, Caulaincourt dragged him to Alexander. Until five in the morning Napoleon's emissaries argued with that odd Tsar, who was in his most mellow mood. He encouraged them; Napoleon's cause still had a chance. But all precautions...