Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...wish you Americans would cease to be disgustingly sentimental about the few animals that survive the tortures and deadly fear of being imprisoned and sent up in rockets. It makes me and many others sick...
...gathered to hear the candidate for the grand, if ornamental, job of President of the Republic of Ireland. Portly General Sean MacEoin, 65, the "Blacksmith of Ballinalee," the man who in the Great Trouble "refused to have an anesthetic while having an English bullet removed from his body for fear that while unconscious he might betray his comrades," had all the proper credentials for Irish politics. But the fact remained: he was running against the Long Fellow himself...
Died. Dr. Grantly Dick Read. 69, champion of natural childbirth, who argued that labor pains are largely caused by fear, reported (No Time for Fear) from a trip to Africa that 95% of the unafraid primitive women he examined had painless deliveries; in Wroxham, England...
...short stories. As in his novels (The Trap, A Dance in the Sun), Jacobson's writing is skilled, hard and sun spare. He uses the tensions between Negroes and whites as he would if they were the tensions of love or war, to reveal stress points of fear, weakness or guilt in his characters...
...Raisin in the Sun. A South Side Chicago Negro family lives in a tenement that is rarely touched by the sun, but the glow of passion, humor, fear and stirring dreams lights up each character...