Word: feare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Pointing out that Russian had no reason for picking a fight, Marshall cited Japan's recent vigorous expansion program and imperialistic ambitions, as well as the desire for natural resources and the fear of Communism, perennial Nipponese bogey, as reasons why the island empire might attack the great Bear on its North...
...Protestant and as a Protestant President of an overwhelmingly Catholic country may help to persuade the 1,290,000 inhabitants of stubbornly independent, strongly Protestant Northern Ireland that in a political union with Eire (strongly urged by de Valera) no Protestant would have anything to fear; 3) although an Irish nationalist, he is a "nonpolitical figure" and just the kind of non-controversial head of state that a country intermittently rocked by violent political quarrels needs. Son of a rector of County Roscommon, Dr. Hyde's academic fame rests on his work for the revival of the Irish language...
...Nearly two-thirds of the women approved sex experience outside of marriage. Greatest deterrent: fear of pregnancy...
...member of the Student Union Committee on the House problem I interviewed a House master who professed amazement at the passiveness with which the students accept the deplorable lack of facilities. This passiveness can be explained by the satisfaction of most us who were admitted, coupled with the fear the disappointed have that their protests will be labeled "sour grapes...
...According to Mr. Withrow this forcing of the market amounts to more than 1,000,000 used cars a year and largely accounts for the annual mortality of from 17% to 25% of dealer establishments. His words brought cheers from the dealers, though a few of them voiced fear of "bureaucratic Government control...