Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...small sense, that solitary house vote reflected the only remaining fear of a few Arkansas lawmakers, not necessarily integrationists, that the Governor was simply getting too much power. Explained the lone dissident, Lawyer Ray Smith Jr., representative from Hot Springs: "I just don't want to give that power to any Governor-even though I believe in his integrity." Smith added that he chose not to disclose his views on integration...
...firm. "We are indeed disturbed by the evidence of Chinese Communist buildup," said he. "I think it would be highly hazardous for anyone to assume that if the Chinese Communists were to attack and seek to conquer these islands, that that could be a limited operation. It would, I fear, constitute a threat to the peace of the area...
...nation's spirit. India still produces more babies than it does food to feed them. (Its population increases at the rate of about 5,000,000 a year, nullifying all gains in agricultural productivity.) Money that could help prop the economy goes into the military budget in fear of a possible war with Pakistan over Kashmir...
...speculative drive that sent Dow-Jones industrials up 2.15 points to 508.28, within four points of the year's high. While confidence in the nation's overall economic health is a factor in the rise, soaring stock prices have outdistanced foreseeable earnings. A bigger factor is the fear of inflation, which has grown so strong that many investors break previously accepted rules in their race to cover themselves against a possible decline in the value of the dollar...
...Jean Gabin plays a weary, health-broken physician who moves to a tiny mountain village in the South of France to live out his years. With him he brings his conviction, gained from years of work in the slums of Paris, that much of the pain and fear of childbirth can be eliminated with proper psychological and physical training. In return, he gets only scorn and a Greek chorus of old wives' tales-for example, if a pregnant woman crosses her legs, she will strangle her child with the umbilical cord. His one believer is an unwed pregnant farm...