Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Fortnight ago, Minnesota's Humphrey-allied Democrat-Farmer-Labor Party gave a big push to a bill abolishing Minnesota's "costly" ten-year-old primary. Fear of the Humphreyites: G.O.P. voters might cross over in the primary to vote for Kennedy and embarrass Humphrey in his home state. Last week the Kennedy-ites scored in Wisconsin with a surprise play that broke up the attempt of Humphrey's teammates to block Kennedy from next April's Wisconsin primary...
...wears earrings, permanents her hair and paints her nails, smokes, wears a wristwatch, Western dresses, nylon stockings and high heels. She may live in an apartment house that has also radically changed Japanese life. Formerly, a wife was chained to her home, not only by her duties, but by fear of fire if the wood-and-paper house was left unattended. Rice cooking used to take an hour before serving; now the housewife merely fills an electric rice cooker (cost $10) and turns a switch...
Though it has been "almost universally assumed" that a decision to launch a nuclear war would be thought "mutual suicided" by either side, Ellsberg asserted, the advantages of a devastating surprise attack on vulnerable U.S. bases, combined with the fear of being liquidated first, would make Russia unwilling to hold back its forces...
...that we have to develop a sound economy so that we won't fall into a slump again and have even more unemployment." By raising the lending rate to member banks, the Fed showed its confidence that the U.S. economic recovery is steadily picking up steam-and its fear that inflation is once more a major danger...
...under pressure, she is less interested in taming her Maoris than in finding the key to these hearts as virgin as her body. She becomes convinced that the words the youngsters respond to are not those in the pap-filled children's books but the ones drawn from fear and sex-from the vital reservoirs of life. Kiss, ghost, butcher, police, fight, jail-shown such words, the most stubborn of the nonlearners read and write...