Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...graduated" v. "graduated" [TIME, May 19]: I chuckled over TIME'S mild rebuke to Reader De Boer, but fear that some readers may have missed the delicate subtlety of "that extended little finger." People who say "was graduated" are like those who pronounce the "i" in parliament and the "t" in often. As a matter of fact the dictionaries allow either the transitive or the intransitive use of the verb, but the stately OXFORD says of "was graduated": "now rare except...
Even the churches that still stand unscathed are not crowded. The Church has no practical suggestions for helping Austria out of its earthly mess. "Do not fear," was the gist of the Easter sermon in the Kirche am Hof, "even though another war seems to be brewing. Look toward a life in a better world after death...
...Holland was leading Rose by a few seconds. A sudden fear seized Lou Moore: would his two drivers get into a stretch rivalry, burn up his beautiful autos and drop out when the race was all but won? Time after time, on the chalk board he ordered "EZY" as Holland passed the pit. On the 193rd lap, with auto racing's biggest honor his for the taking, Rookie Holland obeyed the "EZY" sign-and Oldtimer Mauri Rose (who had cracked up on the 40th lap last year) went into the lead. When a mechanic got set to signal Rose...
...eccentricity or the possession of a gnawing fear is not necessarily a handicap; it may be an asset. Dr. Earl D. Bond, a University of Pennsylvania psychiatry professor, assured a convention of insurance doctors in Asheville, N.C. that "normal" people are not very "interesting''; they don't even seem to be entirely human. Other Bond findings...
...foreman's strike could shut down a mass-production plant at once, but he hoped another week might turn the trick. The strikers had little hope of winning their demand for exclusive bargaining rights for supervisory employees not now F.A.A. members. Nevertheless, they voted to stay out for fear, as one said: "If we go back without a contract they'll weed us out one at a time." This week, in tougher mood, they blocked the cars of scab foremen until police cleared the gates...