Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...declared, there was a "scare-word" campaign. "The people want public housing for low-income families," Truman said. "The selfish interests . . . think it will cut down on their own income so they call it 'collectivism' . . . The people want fair laws for labor. The selfish interests . . . mistakenly fear that their profits will be reduced, so they call that 'statism' . . . We don't care what they call it . . . The people want a fair program for the farmers, including an effective price-support program. The selfish interests . . . call this 'socialism.' We don't care what...
...moved on to a tailor shop, opened the door, and murdered the tailor's screaming wife. He pushed into a neighboring house, found a fear-stricken woman and her 16-year-old son, shot both of them with his last bullets. Then he went back to his upstairs bedroom, leaving twelve dead, one dying and three wounded in a scant twelve minutes that had no counterpart in U.S. crime history...
...above his head, came down low and shouted, "Help!" A sailor on the deck of the steamer looked up. "What?" he cried, but the wind had carried Joseph's ghostly globe far off. "The sun was sinking," remembers Joseph. "I expected the worst, but I had no fear. Mostly I was just wishing I wasn't there...
Only 52 people, on an average, die in the U.S. each year from rabies, but almost everyone has a chilling fear of the disease, and with good reason: once it takes hold, it invariably ends in a horrible sequence of delirium, paralysis and death. The only way to save a patient bitten by a rabid animal is to give him a prompt injection of vaccine which kills the disease before it is fully developed...
...general, but it was spreading, thanks to a seasonal boost in some industries. Hot & heavy summer driving, for example, had finally resulted in an increase in tire sales, which made rubbermen revise upwards their 1949 output and earnings estimates. Part of the upswing resulted from special reasons. Example : the fear of a steel strike was partly responsible for the increased demand for steel which had boosted production to 86.3% of capacity (Weirton Steel Co. was back...