Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...would be a major propaganda victory indeed if Khrushchev could bamboozle the West into keeping SAC's bombers on the ground. For then Khrushchev could rattle his rockets without fear of successful contradiction...
...with such manneristic Method (except during one tender love scene played with Lee Grant as his wife) that the poverty-stricken dreamer often appeared a little paranoid. In The Last of My Solid Gold Watches, Actor Thomas Chalmers was ruggedly convincing as an oldtimer shoe salesman who hides his fear of death and lack of security behind passionate tirades against the new world's lack of manners and tradition, almost managed to mask the fact that the play was little more than a monologue. This Property Is Condemned was another disguised monologue, touchingly acted by a 13-year...
...ancient fear of leprosy is fast disappearing-so much so that the late Father Damien's famed settlement for leprosy patients on the Hawaiian island of Molokai is being opened to tourists. From a peak of 1,180 active cases in 1890, the settlement today has only 75. Since some 150 recovered patients prefer to remain, officials hope to give them a livelihood as guides and taxi drivers by encouraging outside visitors...
...auto industry may be challenged by skilled members of his United Auto Workers who have formed two splinter craft unions, aim to file in 200 plants to win bargaining rights and fatter raises and benefits than unskilled U.A.W. men. Automakers will side with Reuther to battle splinter groups, fear that small number of separately organized skilled workers could paralyze industry if they wanted to strike...
People who would otherwise leave are often restrained by parental pressure, by a fear that they will not be admitted to graduate school if they leave, or by thinking that their act would not be approved by the Administration. Harvard's more selective admissions policy does not permit as cavalier an attitude towards leaving as existed in previous decades. As Perry Miller said, "I don't even know if I would leave if I were a student...