Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...that we object to Mr. Anderson expressing his opinions-such as they are. But we do fear that under a regime such as he proposes, he'd have no TIME Magazine in which he could so fearlessly express his opinions...
...ears and her voice replaced his useless eyes, the horse no longer picked his feet high off the ground at every step in fear that a ditch, a tree, a root or a hollow might trip him. Gradually he became more & more excited when he was in groups of other horses, used to lunge and try to race. Once, when Miss Getzendaner gave the first signal at a ditch, he jumped it instead. She decided then to try to train him to jump...
Lane claimed that if the University's action was based solely on fear of unfavorable publicity the action was impractical, since "any controversial meeting will bring unfavorable publicity from some quarters." Pressure on Granville Hicks or on Dean Landis is possible, he said, "if the University is overanxious to placate the press...
...last revalued in July 1937-so as to make a "paper profit" last week of 34,500,000,000 francs ($931,500,000). The mobilization bill was footed at 12,800,000,000 francs; 4,000,000,000 was paid in cash to those who through necessity or fear withdrew their money from the savings banks when France started to "march''-not to war, as it turned...
Author Hughes protests that In Hazard is not really a book about a storm, but about fear. That he conveys plenty of fear, tense readers will admit. But what will stick in most minds are the sharp descriptive passages-of a momentary lull when sea birds descend on the decks like mosquitoes, their only sound the crunching they make as they are crushed underfoot; of a scene, illuminated by lightning, when the crew looks out on a mountainside of water crawling with sharks...