Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Conscious of our intellectual and material resources, convinced of the value of our principles and of our way of life, without provocation, but equally without fear, we have taken decisions to promote greater unity, greater strength and greater security not only for our own nations but also, we believe, for the world at large...
...more their former professions as judge, prosecutor and defense attorney. Merrill would be the defendant. The crime? He could think of none that he had committed. But soon, between Prosecutor Joseph Wiseman's sharp questions and his own loose-lipped, boozy euphoria, Merrill found in growing confusion and fear that he was on trial for murder-and that his fourth host was the former state executioner. The crime: inducing a fatal heart attack in the boss whose job he coveted...
Play It Yourself. Critics used to fear that so much professionally packaged music, plus the flood of LP records, would put an end to amateur music. The reverse has happened. Twice as many Americans (some 28 million) now play musical instruments as did 20 years ago; roughly 8,000,000 children are playing musical instruments in schools. "It's accepted by the kids now," says one music educator. "In my day it was considered sissy." The industry reckons that it will gross $470 million from musical instruments and sheet music in 1957. Sales of electronic organs alone have increased...
Progress toward solving the problem was blocked in the past by the refusal of many companies to recognize that they had a problem, as well as by the fear that a program to help alcoholics would make the company appear to be a home for drunks. But many big corporations have courageously set examples for industry by creating their own programs or joining with other companies in community-type clinics. New York's Consolidated Edison Co. is one of the pioneers, in 1952 underwrote the cost of setting up a consultation clinic at New York University-Bellevue Medical Clinic...
...Bunny, Thidwick, the Big-Hearted Moose. Not that animals are new in fables, but now nearly all writers of children's stories seem to suggest that 1) the animal kingdom has become an animal democracy where no one would ever tell a skunk that he smells bad, for fear the poor fellow might feel like a second-class citizen; 2) animals all live together in cuddly fellowship; 3) it is more fun to be animal than human, contrary to centuries of civilized thought; 4) animals are people, only with more hair...