Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...throughout Central America, the United Fruit Co. leans over backward to keep the Zamorano school above suspicion. It has announced that it will not employ the graduates in its plantations. The school does not teach banana culture, admits no students because of political connections, markets no surplus produce for fear of being accused of exploiting the students' labor. Said one relieved staff member, long a United Fruit employe: "We feel as pure as missionaries here...
...noon, a 30-man mob assembled in the reformatory yard. A stout rope was thrown over a low-hanging limb. James Scales, taut with fear, was dragged atop an empty oil drum. Suddenly Superintendent Neil, in the immemorial gesture of all Southern peace officers, shouted: "I don't want anything like that done here." Then he ducked. As the shotguns blasted, James Scales fell, his head and back studded with lead...
...speculators were afraid to unload for fear of driving the price down further. As a result, Chicago elevators are still jammed with 9,000,000 bu. of rye and there is no place to store the incoming corn and wheat crops. To try to make room, the Government rationed elevator space. At week's end, speculators holding December rye contracts were scurrying around looking for buyers. The deadline for taking delivery of grain is the last of December, but buyers are scarce. And speculators are painfully aware that when buyers are scarce-and when there is plenty of grain...
According to Professor Allport, the opponents of the bill, such as the author columnist Dorothy Thompson, fear that such a government poll would do away with representative government, and put "too much pressure" on the elected representatives. In answer, Allport points to the powerful lobbies in Congress, and counters, "if pressure is going to be applied, it is better for the people to apply it not special interest groups...
...Rude and Nasty Custom." In Graves's account, young, gay Marie Powell dutifully married John Miltonbecause her father was in debt to him. "I sorely fear," warned lusty Mother Powell "that you will go through Purgatory . . . with that stiff-necked, canting, Judasly rogue...