Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...suggested changes are twofold. The first involves new procedures for closing Senate debate by a two-thirds majority of those present after two days of debate, or by a simple majority of those present after fifteen days. The anti-filibuster drive is headed primarily by men who fear the power of Southern conservatives in blocking civil rights legislation and who are willing to abandon a long-standing Senate tradition of talkativeness to achieve their civil rights objectives...
...have no known gods, but they fear and venerate the jaguar and live in a world infested with evil spirits. Some of these can be bested in rather crude ways. An agent of the Indian Protection Service saw two Xetá women taking turns stamping on the head of a prostrate male. They explained that they were driving out a spirit that was the cause of a headache. After about 20 minutes of this treatment, the patient got up feeling fine...
...decision was a major victory for the pilots, who no longer needed to fear that the greater speed and capacity of the jets would bring pilot layoffs or demotions. It did not satisfy the six American pilots who make up the negotiating team, all of them lower-paid junior pilots. When the representative of the parent A.L.P.A. urged the team to accept a settlement, they ordered him to leave the negotiating talks. Just 14 minutes before the strike deadline, they brought in a dozen more demands, including such fringes as private rooms for all pilots during layovers. The talks collapsed...
...surface) and the shallow ocean floor. Once, Anderson nosed his sub to the seemingly ice-free surface but jarred against thin ice and blacked out both his periscopes. A 15-hour repair feat, in a choppy sea and bone-numbing wind, restored No. 1 periscope to use. Constant fear: that the conditions at the top of the world, which confuse both magnetic and gyro compasses, would doom Nautilus to a game of "longitude roulette," in which the directionless ship might wander aimlessly around the Arctic Ocean without finding either of the two water exits-like a sort of latter...
...fear those shadows most...