Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hearing room in Washington reeked with the ugly smell of shakedown, of labor hoodlums sweating behind the Fifth Amendment, of sordid fear, as testimony on the Chicago restaurant protection racket went into its second week. To the members of the Senate's labor-management investigating committee, it was quite clear that they had caught the scent of one of the dirtier trails in labor history...
Around the world, memories, fears and misgivings greeted the U.S. landing in Lebanon. The memories stirred in all nations that had ever been occupied (a good portion of the world's population), and raised doubts even among those Latin American, Asian and African nations that usually side with the West. The fear came from those who believed that U.S. involvement would increase the danger of war in the Middle East-a fear which the Russians set out to increase. The misgivings came from those who thought the West was backing the wrong forces in the Middle East...
...convinced that it is never right to settle any policy simply out of fear of the consequences . . . For all I know it is within the providence of God that the human race should destroy itself in this manner [nuclear...
...Westerner who would understand Zen, there is one prerequisite: "He must really have come to terms with the Lord God Jehovah and with his Hebrew-Christian conscience so that he can take it or leave it without fear of rebellion. He must be free of the itch to justify himself. Lacking this, his Zen will be either 'beat' or 'square,' either a revolt from the culture and social order or a new form of stuffiness and respectability...
...Fund, which have not been raised generally since the fund was created in 1944, although inflation and rising world trade have cut in half the fund's effectiveness in keeping world currencies in balance. Although the fund squeaked through the currency crisis at the time of Suez, many fear that it is now facing a major new threat. So many underdeveloped countries are running out of foreign exchange, because of the drop in sales of raw materials, that economists fear world trade will be drastically curtailed, and many a nation plunged into depression. Britain is also strong...