Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...kept piling up fame and fortune, acquired a powder-blue Mark V Jaguar, a destroyer-grey Nash-Healey, two boats, three posh homes. 20 winter suits, and, in lawful succession, two wives. Wife No. 1 was a trim Cotton Club chorine, whom Powell divorced in 1945 ("I fear I just outgrew her"). Wife No. 2 is Jazz Pianist Hazel Scott, who spends most of her time in Paris these days, amid epidemic rumors of impending divorce...
...ordered"' the U.S. and Britain out of Lebanon and Jordan. ¶ The Latin Americans, although sympathetic to the U.S. position, were not willing to support any resolution that clearly implied U.S. intervention in Lebanon was justified because it had been requested by Lebanese President Camille Chamoun. The reason: fear that this would establish a precedent that might someday be used to justify U.S. intervention on behalf of the established government in Latin American revolutions. ¶ Israel, unconvinced that U.N. support alone could keep Hussein on his throne, was plugging for a great-power guarantee of all existing Mideast frontiers...
Businessmen are well aware that long-term contracts have many advantages. Management need not fear a production-crippling strike for three, four, even five years. Long-term contracts spare labor and management alike the heavy expense of time and treasure that yearly bargaining sessions require. With a fixed wage pattern, companies can plan ahead years in advance, knowing what their labor bill will be; they are able to guarantee delivery without interruptions. Were it not for long-term contracts in the auto industry, for example, countless auto suppliers would live from hand to mouth, not knowing from...
...long-suffering wingman is Lee Philips, whose fear of combat has led him to booze his way into his wife's disaffections. He gets popped by a North Korean MIG, bails out over enemy territory. Mitchum, of course, has only to scoot home and catch a quick shower in order to nest down with the missing flyer's spouse (May Britt). Instead, the red-blooded rat turns true blue; he bellylands his plane, heaps Philips over his shoulder and reels (about 25) back to their own lines. There Philips' repentant wife waves disconsolate farewell to Mitchum...
...removed. In church next Sunday, he preached on the text: "Thou shalt not have strange gods before me." At a suitable moment the friar produced the idol and had it chopped to pieces with an ax and burnt. Later the idolaters had Gage cudgeled, stabbed and put in such fear of his life that the local authorities sent a train of armed men to arrest the attackers. Shortly thereafter Gage returned to England-and to religious conflict no less bitter...