Word: feare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...will unmercifully put aside all unjustifiable price increases," he announced. "Price increases have taken place in many fields in recent months that are absolutely unbearable. A fear psychosis has crept in from which I would like to liberate those affected. . . . Wear your old clothes down to the last thread if necessary. . . . There is no excuse for any kind of worry about the supply of our daily needs. . . . My first activities will centre on food and clothing, for their prices seem to me the most critical...
Thereafter Flagship Captain Hodges did not dare to move his padlocked ship for fear of starting international complications and losing his lucrative job as a high-ranking officer in the Colombian Navy...
...Kemmerer ably pointed out. It is the federal deficit which constitutes the chief threat of inflation. As long as the government continues its policy of lavish expenditures, as long as a glittering flood of gold purs from the Treasury, no honeyed words of the President can banish the fear inspired by the prospects of monetary manipulation. Regardless of its temporary effects on unemployment, any plan which contemplates the expenditure of billions of dollars is detrimental to the country's welfare insofar as it retards business rehabilitation...
Meantime his budding flower was set upon by cutworms, slugs and aphids. Two preferred stockholders marched into court to block the Knoxville deal. A group of coal and ice companies, which mortally hate & fear TVA's hydro-electric schemes, hastily obtained judicial permission to join the fight. Since the agreement was already signed & sealed, Bond & Share was placed in the anomalous position of fighting shoulder to shoulder with Mr. Lilienthal...
...seem to fear that such action by university professors may be excessively "difficult" and "dangerous." I can assure you from my own experience that such fears are exaggerated. I refer you to the case of the Charlestown rioters, so-called, recently before the courts of this state. Commenting on that case in an editorial which you published on May 18th last, you said: "Any nation espousing a belief in freedom of speech will not submit to a subjugation of it under the tattoo of horses' hoofs. The brutality and officiousness demonstrated yesterday are to be deplored...