Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...wheedle whackers can operate across provincial lines in Canada because there is no federal securities law. They can sell across the border without fear of extradition because the U.S. and Canada have not agreed upon a treaty which covers their operations. These activities mainly consist of peddling dubious stocks at greatly inflated prices. One Ontario woman paid $1.20 for a stock selling at 23? on the open market...
Submarines themselves are now equipped with heavier anti-aircraft guns to protect them from the patrol planes, which the men mortally hate & fear. They carry medical officers, have new-model rubber escape boats. Like U.S. subs, they stock the best food their country can provide- chicken, wine, oranges, real butter, good meat...
Despite statistics which prove night baseball to be a financial lifesaver, many baseball men, including Lieut. Colonel Larry MacPhail, who introduced lighting to the major leagues in Cincinnati, fear that so much of it is dangerous to postwar business. They are afraid that baseball patrons will grow to expect such backbreaking schedules as doubleheaders on Sundays and holidays and games every night in the week. Another worry is that children, less likely to attend night than day baseball, may not get so interested in the game...
...Your son has had his eyes seriously damaged in the war. . . . He has been confronted with the fear of blindness which he has faced with the same manly courage he had when wounded. . . . Everything possible has been done to save his sight, without success...
...fear of blindness is a very real and ugly thing. Fear can only be overcome by understanding the thing that causes it. The fear of blindness is the fear of utter darkness, a physical darkness that leads to a darkness of the mind. It is also the fear . . . of helplessness . . . of loss of earning capacity. It is also a fear of loneliness, of sentimental pity, of being placed by one's friends in a world apart...