Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Pittsburgh was almost an invalid for 19½ hours while Duquesne Light Co. workers stayed off the job. Even though the company managed to produce power at 50% of normal volume, street cars stopped, street lights went out, office buildings closed for fear elevators might go out of control, and residential districts were blacked out in rotation. Mayor David Lawrence took to the radio, announced: "This is a disaster." It might have been much worse-if power had failed completely, the city's milk and water supply would have been cut off, and refrigerators and oil burners would have...
Campaign Finals. As time grew short, Perón quickened his already kinetic campaign. He harangued a Buenos Aires mass meeting which turned into a circus because tumultuous rain had shorted loudspeakers, evinced fear for his life ("any move against my person will bring civil war in 48 hours"), barnstormed up & down potent Buenos Aires province...
...weeks past, with unaccustomed candor, party chiefs had been talking to the people. The campaign keynote was fear of the world outside...
...Emotionally I was reduced to a most primitive level of hope-fear. My feeling of apprehension and insecurity during the first operation was relieved by two factors: the authoritative, calm voice of the surgeon and the comforting physical contacts of [two women] physicians (who stroked my brow, pressed...
...main concern was with pain. . . . During [parts of] the operation it filled my whole mind. There was literally no room for anything else . . . one's emotional reaction to pain ... is partly a fear of more pain to come, of its continuing or getting worse...