Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have nothing to fear (from communism) so long as we come to understand the nature of our own culture and remain free to estimate coolly the forces which account for the virulent vitality of Communism in certain quarters of the earth," he stated...
Cripps said that the sacrifices involved in devaluation would be wasted if production costs were allowed to rise. By this he meant that appeals for wage increases must be rejected. The alternative would be "unemployment . . . bankruptcy . . . fear and misery." Nevertheless, wage-freezing in the face of rising living costs was the bitterest part of his message for home consumption...
...This is a sign of higher culture. They don't like to see the rear view of the sweating driver. In the East, due to low culture, passengers ride in back. In Siam, for example, so low is the culture that the law forbids push-type cabs for fear the passengers will be assaulted by the drivers...
...Distinction. Admen, in league with psychology, following charts marshaled by armies of researchers, plotted a never-ceasing campaign to capture the public's attention, and stab to the psychological soft spots of men & women. They appealed to fear ("Even your best friends won't tell you"), to snobbery ("Men of Distinction"), to romance ("She's lovely, she's engaged, she uses Pond's"). They spoke in euphemisms, wrapped like cotton around the harsh facts of life, and invented dread new diseases (B.O., Office Hips, Halitosis). They found that endorsements by real people, from tobacco auctioneers...
...chance: a young photographer asked her to pose for him. The results were sensational. Vogue and Harper's Bazaar fought to get her services as a mannequin; she has worked for both. Horst, one of the first photographers for whom she posed, recalls that she trembled with fear during her early sittings, but soon lost her stage fright, and became a top Paris, model. (She once posed in an evening gown while hanging on to the Eiffel Tower with one hand and one foot...