Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Toscaninian grunting and humming). Nevertheless, the orchestral playing is far from polished. The company can doubtless not afford a sufficient number of orchestral rehearsals; the players are quickly recruited more or less at random from the Union local and thus cannot possibly achieve a nuanced and precise ensemble. I fear nothing can be done about this shortcoming...
...names of many nominees have been kept secret for fear of prejudicing the public before the girls have attained their peak efficiency. However, a few nominations have been announced. The Harvard Dramatic Club is sponsoring Liliane Solmsen '60. Miss Solmsen has spent the last two weeks in the Radcliffe gym. "I'll do my best," she promised...
...reluctance of the Moslems was partly based on fear of the F.L.N., which could not make good on its death threats against the 3,000,000 Moslems who voted in the referendum, but could easily pick off the few that ran for office. Besides, many moderate Moslems seemed to feel that, if De Gaulle's government was eventually going to deal with the F.L.N., they should not appear as candidates in an election that the F.L.N. had condemned as "null and void...
...have visited, Ceylon is politically perhaps the most restless, and this causes concern." Ceylon is too conscious of its past colonial subjugation, he said. "It will be much better to ask for foreign aid. It will increase your national income so that you can increase taxes. You need not fear foreign influence, or new foreign domination...
...vice president for sales, quit American in 1946 after 18 years, went into advertising, came back this year at Smith's request to take on the job of selling jet seats to the public. In the 1930s Charlie Rheinstrom was the first to meet head on the public fear of flying, which other airlines ignored, with an unprecedented ad titled "Afraid to Fly?" ¶ William J. Hogan, 56, executive vice president for finance, is a wiry, greying man, who has won an industry-wide reputation for shrewdness by getting American's money on the best terms, making...