Word: feare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...future planes and spaceships that certain people are privileged to see through the veil of time. If UFOs are only an exciting glimpse of the future, their greatest value is as a promise of magnificent centuries ahead instead of the total atomic destruction so many of us fear...
...Your article concerning the growing fear Negroes are inspiring among the white population fails to point out the very real and justified fear that black Americans have learned to live with in order to survive. I wonder if white Americans are frightened by the same things that scare us. Do they think we will lynch them? Burn their churches and homes? Sick our police dogs on them? Refuse to hire them? Or are they afraid that we might simply wish to be free from dependence and continued exploitation...
...nation's sluggish economic activity from January to June this year has led critics to fear the recessive potential of a tax hike. But Gardiner Ackley, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, has said recently that there was "no longer a significant risk" of recession to block a tax hike. Rather, he added, an income tax increase has become essential to hold down prices and interest rates...
...would have happened had Israel been over-run by Arab forces at the outbreak of hostilities. Not only would the blood-shed have surpassed anything in recent history, but we doubtless would have heared very little from the U.N. England and the United States would have avoided involvement for fear of further escalation, just as Russia has failed to give the Arab nations the support which they expected. With the greater powers neutralized, the pawns have become decisive in the chess game of world politics...
GILP, its critics argued, placed the student who needed a loan at the mercy of his banker. Even though the government would guarantee the loan, no lending institution would be required to participate, and there was fear that the new plan might seriously victimize Negroes in the South. Furthermore, restrictive monetary practices by the federal government could also have a substantial effect on the national money market -- and therefore the student's chances for obtaining a loan...