Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fear that next summer will see an auto strike adds to the recession pinch by making autoworkers, steelworkers, suppliers, et al. all the more reluctant to spend their money...
Some of the sheep have learned to fear Dr. Fry's brisk impatience. One such was a delegate who held the floor at a conference with a tedious speech declaring his readiness to "go to bat" for some project. On his third repetition of this phrase, Fry banged down his gavel and intoned: "Three strikes-you're out!" Other sheep become altogether too sheeplike-as did one bemused delegate who rose to proclaim: "I move what President Fry thinks...
...forced to reduce production even more. Canadian oil sales are in bad shape, and refinery runs of Alberta crude, which comprises 90% of Canada's oil, are at a new low of 271,958 bbl. daily. Only in the Middle East is production still climbing; even there economists fear that oil companies out for quick profits, and Arab rulers anxious for heavier royalties from the wells are pushing production far beyond demand. As one Canadian oilman says, "There are simply not enough markets...
...shipped, and only at a rate of five a crate, compared to the previous dozen. The government's official view was that smaller monkeys are not necessary for polio vaccine. But unofficially, the reason was increasing religious pressure from India's monkey deifiers. plus a dark fear that other countries really use the monkeys for rocket and radiation research. Whatever the reason, by last week the market was effectively killed. Unable to find enough six-pounders, hundreds of trappers went out of business in India, cut off all but a fraction of the monkey supply. And while...
...monotheism is traceable to the great Egyptian monarch, AkhenAton (also known as Ikhnaton), who forswore all gods save the Sun-God Aton. But where Freud guessed that Moses was an Egyptian by birth. Novelist Fast makes him an Egyptian merely by adoption and education. As Fast tells it, fear of the old gods and their priests caused AkhenAton's successors to denounce Aton worship, but not before the idea of monotheism had taken root in some Egyptian minds. In Fast's account, every priest and prince in the great Nile palace of King Ramses II is sworn...