Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Congress. Yet newsmen everywhere handled the charges gingerly. They were aware of the degeneration of the interservice squabbles into an eye-gouging finish fight. In the Pentagon, the security curtain clanked down abruptly. Worried staff officers warned inquiring newsmen not even to discuss the matter over the telephone, for fear of wiretapping. A stream of other rumors flooded through Washington...
Good Old A.T. & T. Of the seniors interviewed by FORTUNE, only 2% planned to go into business for themselves. "The men of '49 every where seem haunted by the fear of a recession. 'I know A.T. & T. might not be very exciting,' explains a senior . . . 'but there'll always...
Cummings explains, "I have no sentimental fear of sentimentality. There's a great pressure on soft people today to try to be hard, and I think that's very shoddy, very ugly. Now my painting complements my writing-if I go without one or the other I miss it-and since my writing is hard then the natural thing would be that my paintings are soft...
What they fear is the methods the university may employ to implement President Seymour's policy. In the one known "Communism case" to date, they know that an inaccurate secret report was used. They are afraid that such voluntary reports may become the normal procedure in "communism cases...
...strong department will almost invariably fight a corporation rejection, the young scholars know. Therefore the young men in these departments have very little fear of being refused an appointment on groundless charges. They know their department will demand to know the charges and will help fight any injustice...