Word: feared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...middle-class fences. After his defeat in the Republican primary he reverted momentarily to high-flown calls on conscience, charging that the Marchi and Procaccino victories meant that "the forces of reaction and fear have captured both major parties in our city. They offer two candidates who appeal to fear, who appeal to the worst instincts in man." Now Lindsay has moved toward massaging the middle rather than assaulting...
Conservative members feel that despite the more formal procedure and communication, the boundaries and communication between the groups remains fluid. "My fear in April," says Wilson, "was that the Faculty would be divided into two or three or four bitterly warring factions and create a Berkeley-type situation...
Adding to their frustration was also the fear that even if they made it out of Nanterre, there was little likelihood of finding a job suitable to their education. In the last few years there had been a huge increase in the number of university students, but no similar increase in opportunities. Like American students facing the draft those French students in sociology, philosophy, and literature, who were the great majority of revolutionaries, looked upon their futures with dread and without the hope that ending a war would bring a solution...
...expensive quarantine in Teheran by an Iranian con man posing as a health official. Jacobs is all surface manner, often on the verge of lapsing into mannerism. Sentimental background music swells too resoundingly over some of his wry endings. Rarely touching the deeper implications of his themes, perhaps for fear of losing the rhythm of his routines, he often fails to provide enough serious relief to all the comedy...
Although the intruders took papers off some desks in the Center, officials expressed little fear that any secret or sensitive documents had been lost. Like the University Health Services and other offices worried about their important files, the Center moved many of its documents to top-security safes earlier this year...