Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fear of Cuba's Fidel Castro, Trujillo has spent $50 million abroad for arms, including French tanks and Mystere jet fighters, and his usually solvent budget is under strain. Vice President Joaquin Balaguer admits that commercial credits against next year's sugar crop are high (reportedly $40 million). Two prime sources: the local branches of The Royal Bank of Canada and The Bank of Nova Scotia. The cost of living, long stable, jumped 20% from July to October...
...weaning, of not having one's own way. Most humans make adjustments to these painful shocks. Yet many are overwhelmed by them, and so they attempt to turn the pain itself into pleasure, i.e., they become psychic masochists. At the same time, humans learn in the nursery to fear the woman: it is she who takes the nipple out of the infant's mouth, she who disciplines him. Many persons grow up to run away from the fearful mother image, and at the same time unconsciously to court self-damage. The resort for both distorted tendencies is homosexuality...
...Harvard met a strong Dartmouth eleven in the first game ever played in the Stadium. Seats on the curve to the south were still unfinished, and temporary stands were erected in the Stadium's north end. There was real fear among the public, despite the many years of testing, that the concrete stands would weaken and crumble as soon as they came into use. To allay these doubts, the construction superintendent prominently walked around under the stands while the spectators found their seats...
Apathy, the Council's "poor reputation from previous years," and "fear of too much work" were cited by Council officials as possible reasons for the small number of petitions turned in. Although the Council's past election records are nuclear, one member admitted that this may be "one of our worst showing in recent years...
France's government-owned Renault Co., world's No. 6 automaker, last week canceled its contract with an Israeli firm to assemble its cars in Israel. Reason: fear of an Arab boycott. To the Israelis it was an old story, but a particularly galling example. Obviously De Gaulle's government had consented to the move, and Israelis thought they knew why: subordinating all else to an Algerian solution...