Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...present with professors alternating courses annually a certain number of courses must be omitted each year. However, were three instructors to rotate within three courses, continuing the annual shift, every course could be given and without fear of stagnation from the platform. The two highly similar surveys being given now are clogging the drain, making classes unwieldy and hampering the activities of the instructors. Any such change would do much to relieve the strain in the English department...
...During the few seconds preceding the jump, the predominant mental factors were fear and excitement. . . . Throughout the free fall, all conscious mental processes seemed normal. As soon as the airplane was cleared, fear and excitement disappeared...
With DuBose Heyward as his librettist, Composer Gershwin kept his work faithful to the play. The Negroes of Charleston's Catfish Row live in the same rickety tenements. They still quarrel and kill over their crap games, still shout their religion, their love and fear of ''Lawd Jesus." Porgy, the crippled beggar, appears driving his seedy goat. The simple love story is his. Bess belongs to the murderer Crown. According to the neighbors she is "a liquor-guzzlin' slut," a "Happy Dust" addict. Porgy gives her shelter, buys her a divorce although she never has been...
Louisville reported farm prices in the Ohio Valley and Tennessee up 25% from a year ago with most of the demand coming from farmers anxious to add to their acreage. Land buying inspired by "fear of New Deal inflation" stopped entirely last spring after the Supreme Court's NRA decision...
...companionship of Gloria and Eddie, paralleling the turbulent, often miserable story of Gloria and the older man. Plain hostility to the older generation is apparent in John O'Hara's portraits of men over 40, since he paints them as depraved, smug, or made cowardly by the fear of publicity, writes unconvincingly of Gloria's family life. Gloria and Eddie, rattling off interrupted reminiscences of childhood, wisecracking and communicating in scrambled, mocking cliches, understand one an-other so completely that, John O'Hara insinuates, only Eddie might have saved her. And this Eddie could...