Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...personally do not fear gangrene because I feel that the progress of medical researchers will finally conquer this heretofore neglected disease (arteriosclerosis...
Having overcome this and other transportation problems, Snedaker had to meet still another: fear that a magazine from Egypt would transmit the cholera vibrio. To clear up this misapprehension, Egypt's Ministry of Public Health satisfied itself that a cholera vibrio could exist no more than three hours on a diet of TIME - or any other periodical. This fact was duly spread by the Egyptian press, and TIME continued to move over the Egyptian border by special truck - giving the vibrios plenty of time to expire...
...cinemagnates earnestly repeated that "nothing subversive or un-American has appeared on the screen" (there was no proof that any ever had). In the pursuit of their new policy, they acknowledged that "there is the danger of hurting innocent people ... the risk of creating an atmosphere of fear...
...hard fact was that the atmosphere of fear was heaviest around the box office. Most of the cinemoguls were scared stiff by what they thought was the average moviegoer's indignation over Communism in Hollywood, as spotlighted by Parnell Thomas' committee. In Hollywood there was fear of further movie retrenchments; last week Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer slashed its payroll by 40% and other studios were firing hundreds of carpenters, electricians and eyebrow-pencilers...
...humor to students. In the Atlantic appeared some letters Twain had written to his fiancée-and one to her father. Portrait of an anxious-to-please son-in-law-to-be: "I wrote you [the father] and Mrs. Langdon a letter . . . which will offend again, I fear-and yet, no harm was meant, no undue levity, no disrespect, no lack of reverence. The intent was blameless-and it is the intent...