Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Protestants are free to carry out their simple services unmolested. Pastors speak their minds from their pulpits without fear that there are police observers in the congregation. "Of course not," quipped one nonchurchgoing Spaniard last week. "The police are afraid to send observers into the Protestant churches. They might be converted...
...Fear of Mom. In both Britain and the U.S., hospitals that allow rooming-in by mothers can be counted on the fingers. (In practice, because of work or being tied down by other children, only about half the mothers can take advantage of the chance to room in.) But despite the obvious success of pioneer British programs, many hospital staffs strongly oppose extending the plan. Main reason is fear of mom. Complained one nurse: "You just can't do things that have to be done, when mothers are around." Another: "Mothers can be very difficult, in some cases because...
...begun to give a first, rough literary form to the western story. By 1890 the "flesh-times in Kansas" were a thing of the past. Wild Bill Hickok had been tamed by Writer-Promoter Ned Buntline, and was playing in Buffalo Bill Cody's Wild West show ("Fear not, fair maid, you are safe at last with Wild Bill, who is ever ready to risk his life, and die if need be, in defense of helpless womanhood"). But the legend of the two-gun terror lingered on, and in 1902, when Owen Wister published The Virginian, the legend "came...
...scramble? Rising industrial production accounts for some of the demand. But chiefly, copper consumers are buying because they fear the price will go still higher if strikes shut the big mines. Says American Smelting & Refining's Vice President Simon Strauss: "Copper consumers have long memories. They remember the copper shortages of several years ago, which were politically rather than economically caused." Strikes have already shut one U.S. smelter and threatened the big mines of Northern Rhodesia. Copper buyers are also hedging the possibility of a strike June 30, when the contract of the International Mine, Mill & Smelter Workers expires...
...principal reason for the surprisingly small figure may have been a fear among Freshmen that almost everyone else would apply to Quincy. Paul E. Sigmund, Jr., Allston Burr Senior Tutor of Quincy House, yesterday supported this explanation, labeling previous estimates of Quincy applications as "self-defeating...