Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...waste of public funds--but this does not necessarily imply that they are therefore undesirable. Admittedly, expenditure programs have a long-run rather than immediate impact on the economy; still, their value, socially and economically, is certain. A recession is not the time for the government to economize, and fear of deficit financing often implies fear of positive action...
...strike benefits of $650 per month, and striking American, with 1,541 pilots needing the same benefits, are two different matters. Yet the A.L.P.A., headed by President Clarence N. Sayen, says flatly that "unless the third man is a pilot, we will not operate jets." The pilots' real fear is that the bigger, faster jets will mean smaller airline fleets and thus fewer jobs unless they win the third-man spot. But the history of air travel has proved that each new advance inevitably leads to new increases all around. Case in point: the A.L.P.A. itself, whose membership...
...fever for field duty. He volunteers to command a seven-man demolition team whose main target is the twisting mountain road along which all vehicles, including his own and the pursuing Japanese, must travel. The road is an undulating mass of Chinese refugees moving in grim lockstep with fear, famine and misery. In their eyes, the Americans are the dei ex machina shielded from fatality by the jeep, the SCR-300 radio and the K-ration...
...those who try to organize a "new" religion of Brotherhood but fools rushing in where even the bravest angels fear to tread? At least we have received much encouragement from many who could scarcely be called foolish. Some comments on my Toward World Brotherhood which suggested and explained the Brotherhood Movement...
MEMBERS OF THE FACULTY ARE RIGHT IN FEARING THAT A STRONG SECTARIAN TREND WOULD ENCHROACH ON THEIR FREEDOM. The sectarianism in Memorial Church is but a symptom of something much deeper and more widespread. To get rid of it there and have it continue vigorous among Harvard men would be like clipping a few inches off the whiskers of a tiger and leaving the temper and the claws of the tiger intact. And the temper of the sectarian tiger is anything but wholesome now on account of the fear-inspired gloom and emotionalism of current theology...