Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...monument to the steam-powered, grandly gambling free enterprise which had made Victorian England rich. It started in the 1780s, when a friend wrote to James Watt about a fellow inventor: "He has mentioned to me a new scheme which ... he is afraid of mentioning to you for fear of you laughing at him. It is no less than drawing carriages upon the road with Steam Engines. ... He says . . . that there is a great deal of Money to be made...
Hans Rietmann had no fear. On Christmas Eve, he entered the pit by himself. When he tried to fasten the chains around the elephant's hind legs, Chang turned and swept him up in his trunk...
...mesquite brush, the nimble cow ponies always outran it; a vaquero's lasso snaked out and around its neck, brought it thudding to the ground." Up here in the Hereford country of the Missouri Ozarks, no vaquero would drop his rope over a calf's neck for fear of general ridicule by everybody in the valley; if he could not get a clean throw at its front feet, he would settle for the hind feet...
Some Americans were still unaware of the step their nation had taken. Some knew that it had to be taken; some, either through fear or lack of imagination or lack of knowledge, were unwilling to follow. But the central fact remained: if the soth Century world was to secure its freedoms, the U.S. would have to supply leadership; doing less might even jeopardize its own freedom...
...disgruntled Navy airmen, whose mortal fear is that the independent Air Force will try to swallow the Navy's air arm, lean, 51-year-old Annapolisman Radford is the one admiral who is outspoken enough to hold the service together. Commander of the Second Task Force of the Atlantic Fleet, he has been a pilot since 1920, has served in nearly every branch of the Navy air arm from fighter squadrons to command of a carrier task group in the Pacific. He has also done his desk time in Washington, got his battle command because of his decisive slicing...