Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...friends who fear that Massachusetts' Senator Jack Kennedy is whirling too far ahead of the pack in his bid for the 1960 Democratic presidential nomination, brainy, bankrolling father Joe Kennedy sums up his son's thinking this way: "The only way we can win this is to wrap it up very, very early. In our position, that's the risk we're most willing to take, and it's the least of our worries. When you start from scratch, you've got to run like the dickens all the way." ¶The House Ways...
...western end of County Mayo, between Blacksod Bay and the thundering combers of the Atlantic, lies Mullet Peninsula. Here, where Gaelic is spoken from infancy and not learned painfully in the schools, the scanty human population is kept busy propitiating fairies, changelings, merrows, leprechauns, banshees, pookas, cluricaunes, far darrigs, fear-gortas and headless dallahans, who all like to amuse themselves by turning milk sour, making cows break their legs, laming horses, or defying the machine age by overturning tractors and hurling rocks bigger than themselves into machinery...
...willing workers, but the men answered that they valued their lives more than a pint of beer. Next, he turned to the oldest greybeards in the parish (one 95, the other 97), and offered them the job on the theory that they did not have enough years left to fear the vengeance of the fairies. They declined...
...Secondary-School Principals (an NEA affiliate) who sent a round-robin letter to 16,500 high school principals recently, suggesting a boycott of TIME and LIFE (TIME, April 21). Observed Carr pointedly: "Some adverse comments about our schools are justified. In such cases, the appropriate reaction is not fear or anger, but rather prompt and remedial action...
...Whenever there are runners on the bases and a righthanded batter steps up," wrote Red Smith in his syndicated sports column, "a sense of impending doom settles upon the multitude. Fear grips the pitcher. Panic stalks the stands. Maybe the batter will pop the ball harmlessly into the stratosmog, but the threat of a shattering home run is always imminent...