Word: feare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...vacancies. But when three more terms expired last June, and one of his appointees resigned, the Mayor, on the verge of transferring control of higher education from Tammany to Fusion, was stumped to fill the four places. The job is unpaid, takes considerable time and many prominent citizens fear to become embroiled in politics. Finally, two weeks ago, the mayor found respectable citizens who would take three of the jobs, giving him a majority of eleven on the board. Chairman of the board, suave Mark Eisner, law partner of Tammany's former leader, George W. Olvany, continued...
...doubtful ones was Diana Haddon, now twentyish and one of London's brightest young things, at the moment dallying innocently with Sir John's young affections. There was also the startling Lady Mors, whose husband thought he was a firecracker and so lived in constant fear of going off. It was Lady Mors who had indirectly wrecked Joseph's chances as a wine merchant and so, by switching him to gardening, had brought him still more indirectly to the most momentous' day of his career: the opening of the annual show of the Royal Horticultural Society...
...student on his way. But to pass these examinations it is fair to say that no especial genius is required. When a student has done a fair amount of work and is able to organize his synthesis of this work on paper under pressure, he should have nothing to fear. And although those to whom the technique of taking exams is new may find their first "Hours" a gruelling nightmare, after a little experience, it should not be hard for them to master the terrors that stalked them...
Occidental Governments so fear the spread of China's pestilences that the U. S. Public Health Service has an outpost at Hong Kong, which last week reported the main foci of the epidemic as in Shanghai, Hong Kong, Canton, Hoihow, Macao. Amoy and Foochow were being scrutinized closely. The League of Nations has established a central observation post in Singapore, and last week the League's observers reported that refugees from the coast were spreading cholera inland. At the League of Nations' Geneva headquarters last week, its watchful Health Committee warned: "Repercussions which might become serious internationally...
...year-old Irish peer. Reason for his visit's brevity: Fortnight ago a Paris pickpocket whisked a passport from the right hip pocket of his trousers. Threatened with Ellis Island detention, he roared: "I have no fear of the place. ... I hear they have some new murals...