Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fear and excitement may make a man blush, sweat, turn pale, run a high blood pressure or faint-or he may just keep a poker face. But under emotional stress, no man, however impassive, can keep his finger tips from palpitating. To A.M.A. conventioneers two young Tulane Medical School doctors exhibited a machine that indicates the state of a man's emotions by "listening" to his finger tips...
...R.C.A.F., returned to graduate from the University of Southern California, wrote a half-page valedictory for U.S.C.'s Alumni Review: "We Are Unafraid." Excerpts: "This year there are some seniors who are afraid to graduate ... to face the Atomic Age. . . . Those of us who do not fear graduation are unafraid because we know we hold the key to the future. ... We value faith...
...inevitable." The sooner it came, "the less painful" it would be. But it was Chase National Bank Chairman Winthrop Aldrich who administered the largest dose of soothing syrup. In Switzerland he told the International Chamber of Commerce, which he had headed for two years: "Europe does not need to fear that an American postwar corrective recession will degenerate into a depression. . . . [Recessions] are necessary to reduce costs and prices to a level which permits an economy to function to best advantage. Moreover, they serve to increase labor productivity and managerial efficiency and lay the basis for further improvements in living...
Collector of Oils. With his oil wealth, Gulbenkian acquired one of the world's finest private art collections, including the famed September Morn by Paul Chabas, and a palatial house on Paris' Avenue d'Iéna. Yet he lived in such fear of his life that he invariably spent his nights in a Paris hotel, where he felt safer...
...their uncomplaining acceptance of endless labor for pathetic rewards. In other ways, too, her reactions were typical of U.S. visitors to Moscow. She was annoyed by the sloppy workmanship everywhere, by the suffocating snarls of red tape, by one-party ballots which made elections a farce, by the fear of ordinary citizens to speak without looking over their shoulders. She saw prostitutes solicit openly (the Soviet Government proudly claims that it has ended prostitution in Russia), found beggars everywhere, watched black-marketeers operating in public markets...