Word: feare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...really necessary to make such a mockery of the Harewood-Tuck-well marriage [Aug. 11]? I found your treatment to be crude, distasteful and juvenile. If your aim was lightheartedness, you missed the mark, I fear. In my opinion the write-up very definitely smacks of lightheadedness...
...talk of reminding the electorate next year that Democrats controlled the White House when the U.S. entered each of its last four wars. Because the G.O.P. until now has been more staunch in its support of the Administration's Viet Nam policy than the Democrats, some Republicans fear political damage if progress in Viet Nam continues to be slow. Kentucky Senator Thruston Morton, a former G.O.P. national chairman, said recently: "It is essential that the party find an alternative course for disengagement...
...availability of legal services recommended that the board of governors be allowed to draw up standards for certification of specialists. That modestly forward-looking proposal went to the house of delegates, where it was surprisingly defeated. Reason: many of the delegates are small, jack-of-all-fields practitioners who fear that an increase in specialization would narrow the generalist's practice. The vote effectively blocked action on specialization this year, but proponents of certification promise that they will try again...
...present known range of the brown recluse extends from Wisconsin to Texas, and from the Carolinas to Colorado. Because of its penchant for hiding in bundles of bedding or clothing, health officials fear that vacationers may pick up the brown recluse in the infested areas and carry it to their homes in the rest of the country...
...Plow with Sound. Nostalgists still mourn for the days when most farm chores were handled by horses instead of horsepower, by men instead of machines. As Agriculture Secretary Orville Freeman recently noted, they fear that the trend toward automation "will excise the soul from farming, destroy its joy, dull its satisfactions and chill the ageless intimacy between man and his land." This view notwithstanding, most farmers welcome machine-age relief from what Dr. Joseph Ackerman, managing director of Chicago's Farm Foundation, calls "farming by hunch and the Farmer's Almanac...