Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Despite the Honolulu Advertiser's understandable fear of Harry Bridges, any change of bosses that might increase their initiative would be a good deal...
...race for new facilities, the dance committee has tried to reopen Winthrop and Eliot Houses on Saturday night. Since all the Houses are under the jurisdiction of their individual masters, the Dean's Office is impotent and can only act as mediator between the committee and the masters, whose fear of rowdiness coupled with a reluctance to stage more than two big dances each term has made them cool towards the advances of the students...
...week's end, the row was on. Objected Dr. Rolla E. Dyer, director of the National Institute of Health (in Cissie Patterson's Washington Times-Herald): "There is less & less reason every year for fear of old age. ... It is silly to talk about 'hopeless' [diseases] in these times." Cried Monsignor Robert E. McCormick, presiding judge of the ecclesiastical tribunal in New York's Catholic Archdiocese: "Anti-God, unAmerican, and a menace to veterans...
...mother was to blame," remarked Billy. "She didn't allow him to be independent." A boy named Caleb thought the G.I. had deserted too soon: "If it had come to a showdown, the soldier might have shown more courage than he thought he had." John guessed: "Fear isn't always bad. Sometimes it's good. It makes you more alert...
...down the line. But black markets and many bottlenecks would be ended and prices of some items-i.e., nails-would drop under black market prices. ¶ Electrical appliances, such as small motors, would go up slightly, though General Electric's President Charles E. Wilson had "no fear of runaway prices." ¶ Rents, though still controlled, might be permitted to rise in some places. But not much. OPA's figures showed that landlords, even under full controls, were doing 24.9% better this year than in 1939, thanks to lower maintenance costs. ¶ Government allocations on rubber and scarce...