Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...grimy little shops on Soho's back streets the lights were full on for everybody to see. But along majestic Regent Street soft, flickering candlelight illumined windows. Silversmiths and jewelers put their best Georgian candlesticks to use, but most of them took small items off the counters in fear of shoplifters in the semidarkness. Most of London's West End department stores were open, but there were few customers...
Women with deep emotional conflicts, Dr. Friedgood pointed out, often show psychosexual disorders. A fairly common one: false pregnancy among i) unmarried women who feel guilty about illicit interr course, 2) wives who fear pregnancy, 3) older women who want children...
Since at our back we always fear...
Last to talk to the 22 year-old College junior were his mother and younger brother, Thomas, on the night of January 23 at 10 o'clock in the family's Boston residence at 184 Beacon Street. The family's greatest fear is that Sylvester Gardiner may have gone through treacherous ice after he left them, possibly to indulge in moonlight skating on the Charles River...
...brought the subject up, planned to appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. Her eleven-year-old son James had been "embarrassed," she said, because he was the only pupil in his class who had declined the voluntary Bible lesson. Religion, fumed Mrs. McCollum, is "a racket based on fear and prejudice and a chronic disease of the imagination contracted in childhood...