Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Being an ex-railroad man and familiar with the accuracy of TIME, also LETTERS, the writer had a chill of fear for the safety of the Presidential party on their recent cross-country jaunt. In the picture of Engineer Britton looking [TIME, Oct. 7] straight ahead with keen eye and steady hand on the throttle lever, it appears very much as though the reversing gear is set to send the locomotive and its burden in the opposite direction, quite a dangerous practice on any railroad...
...airplane 2,200 ft. over Dayton last month tumbled a bulky Army doctor with a parachute rip cord in his hand, a determined gleam in his eye, and, since it was his first jump, a tremor of 'fear in his heart. For 1,200 ft. he plummeted end over end at 119 m.p.h. Then he pulled his rip cord, jerked upright as the parachute opened, floated serenely to earth, well pleased because he had just made the first scientific analysis of the "subjective mental and physical reactions to a free fall in space...
...East Africa. Piously dressed in his Sunday-go-to-Geneva best, Mr. Laval suggests that if only Great Britain will recall her fleet from the Mediterranean and leave her children, Gilbraltar, Malta, and Egypt, to be watched over by the eye of heaven alone, Mussolini will stop cringing from fear and beat his swords into plowshares for use on the Roman Campagna...
Sacha was frequently embarrassed by his father's fame. Besides such eminent figures as Sarah Bernhardt, Edmond Rostand, Henry Bernstein. Rejane, Anatole France, Eugene Brieux, Paul Bourget, he knew droll and pompous nobodies, devoted lovers of the theatre, all of whom impressed on him the constant fear that he might, from lack of talent, dishonor the name he bore...
Naturally no thinking man sees in this bill the black boot of tyranny which is about to stamp out our time-honored liberties and carry us back to the dark ages. Nevertheless, in the present state of fear and trembling, such a measure, futile as it may be, sets a dangerous precedent which conceivably may prove the inaugural address to a regime of genuine oppression...