Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Favoring "private initiative, direction and control," John T. Noonan, Jr. '47 (pictured above) said the government should step in "only where responsible and efficient private enterprise cannot do the job," and that "fear of the state is the beginning of wisdom...
...firmly convinced that political barriers between peoples can be overcome through singing. "I have seen people from different backgrounds all sing together and end up with a warmth they didn't realize existed. The world is full of fear and suspicion, and people are only afraid of each other--singing just breaks down these artificial barriers...
...H.A.A. stuck to its original statement that rising costs of labor and material had necessitated slashes in team budgets and that lacrosse had been one of the sports in which cuts could be made without fear of recriminations. It has not explained, however, why a sport, one of the oldest played at the college, was abandoned when its budget was less than ten per cent of the expected saving and an infinitesimally smaller per cent of the total athletic budget...
...week went a letter from twelve big steel companies asking for a one-year extension from this June 30 of the present wage agreement, without any increase in benefits. Although the recovery is making "moderate progress," said the letter, there is a disturbing "bulge of synthetic demand" created by fear of a steel strike, and it could lead to "decline and dislocation" later. To keep the economy on a steady course, said the steel companies, "We believe it would be wholesome if a settlement could be reached...
...never gets any back talk. Others may want to leave Belele for a more civilized post, but not de Goltz. Half Dutch, half native, he knows that he has reached his peak, and glories in the power to flog, execute, ride herd on his three young white assistants, who fear him. When a new civil-affairs officer named Major Bluphocks arrives, the stage is set for a vicious contest of wills. He has never been up against a man like de Goltz, and in the intrigue that follows Bluphocks meets disaster, as does just about everyone else in the book...