Word: fearfulness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Your excellent coverage of the monetary crisis shows the disastrous effects of fear and confusion. Let us hope Mr. Nixon learns the lesson. He must take positive steps to build a healthy monetary system the first few weeks he is in office. If he resorts to more self-defeating gimmicks, as the present Administration has, we shall likely have the worst recession since...
...Capitol Hill generate as much fear and frustration as Congressman John James Rooney. In the 17 years that he has chaired the powerful House Subcommittee on Appropriations for State, Justice, Commerce, the Judiciary and related agencies, the diminutive Democrat from Brooklyn has made a career of slashing budget requests, especially those of the State Department. It was Rooney who coined the famous expression "booze allowance" for diplomats' representational allowance-money allotted for official entertaining. His blistering interrogations have left battered and bloodied almost two generations of officialdom. Despite his tortuous quizzings and penurious disposition, Rooney, 65, has his advocates...
...real Harvard departments and taught by regularly-appointed instructors if they are to carry academic credit, the CEP proposal would probably deprive most ROTC courses of credit, while turning over one of two "legitimate" courses to departmental control. The motivation behind this curious arrangement would appear to be the fear if no ROTC courses are allowed to carry credit, the Defense Department will end the ROTC program here...
...also hoped for a united front with the nation's black dissidents, but they were markedly unsuccessful in the Chicago slums, where many black organizations urged their members to "stay cool" and uninvolved. Several leaders of such gangs as the Blackstone Rangers left Chicago during convention week. But fear of a united front kept the Chicago police on edge...
...great fear is that the Nixon administration may be a little slow in starting the de-Americanizing of the war," Reischauer said...