Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Speaker Sam Rayburn, who rarely speaks out any more, stood solemnly before the House, shaking his bald dome and searching for the right words. "I fear," he said, "I am speaking to minds that are closed." It is only reasonable, he pleaded, to give a far-reaching legislative idea a fair trial. Though popular Sam Rayburn has immense prestige, the Congressmen listened coldly. Seeing them unmoved, Sam made a brazen appeal to the patronage instinct: "Let me say to you, my Democratic friends, that I found out a long time ago that in this House the people get along...
...Fear, like pain (see below), has its good points. Fear sends the patient scurrying to the doctor to find out what, if anything, is wrong with him. But fear of cancer, especially among women...
Among his patients, reports New York Gynecologist Robert T. Frank in the current Journal of the American Medical Association, "a large number are fear-stricken and panicky . . . They may . have been told tactlessly by their physician that they have a tumor in the breast, ovary or womb which requires immediate operation. [They] may resist all attempts to convince them that the condition is harmless, nonmalignant and does not require operation...
Opponents cried that "the bill will let loose in our schools a reign of repression and fear." Undismayed, New York's legislature last April passed the Feinberg law, barring members of subversive groups from teaching. The State Board of Regents, which governs the public school system, was charged with enforcement...
...that of Harvard's hardheaded Sumner H. Slichter, who commanded a hearing because his forecasts have been more accurate than those of most economists. Writing in the New York Times Magazine, Slichter said businessmen like Vermont's Senator Ralph Flanders were right in attacking the "psychology of fear" but, unlike them, Slichter did not think the economy's upturn would have to wait until people got back their confidence...