Word: feared
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...seemed to the diggers that the storied visit of the Queen of Sheba may have been motivated by fear that Solomon's new sea trade would interfere with her caravan commerce, and her consequent desire to make a deal...
...Laughing in the Jungle, the story of his first 15 years in the U. S. (1913-28), Slovenian Immigrant Louis Adamic called the U. S. "a vast socio-economic jungle." His "bursts of laughter," he confesses, were really a bluff to hide his fear. My America, running to 669 big pages of fine print, carries his story down to two months ago. "I am no longer 'scared' of the 'jungle,' " says Adamic, "and so I do not need to 'laugh' as much as I used to. In fact, hardly...
After saying that pregnancy has no fear for "us", "our" co-ed tells a story of a "Mary" and a "John" which serves to illustrate her point that the "Feeling of intimacy" too often results in "a strong feeling of possession...
...middle of Act II, Producer Wiman suddenly tosses Budapest into the Danube, lights out for Manhattan, hotchas up Broadway and gives the signal for all kinds of people to rush in where angels fear to tread. The slightly incongruous result wakes up a drowsing show with the black coffee of a burlesque on a Radio City Music Hall routine, introduced by the song At the Roxy Music Hall...
Chief concern of Dr. Prescott was what can be done about training the emotions so that children will become well-balanced adults instead of arrested adolescents. The emotional impulses and cravings with which a child is born - love, fear, the need for affection and for the sense of belonging to a group - are bedeviled by many witches. Besides the timeless family jealousies and bickerings that make a child feel insecure, the accelerating tempo of modern life, the danger and excitement that fill even the comic strips, the rootlessness of city dwellers and competition in all things make "anxiety . . . the most...