Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...both the presidential and congressional polls, Gallup found one overriding reason for the G.O.P. slump: the recession and fear of unemployment. In still another poll, Gallup reported that unemployment had become the problem of greatest public concern. Just a month before, 30% had listed keeping the peace as the nation's top problem, against 7% naming unemployment. Last week's figures: unemployment 40%; keeping the peace 17%. This, said the pollsters, was the first time since Depression year 1937 that unemployment had been rated the U.S.'s No. 1 problem...
...determined woman in Falls Church, Va. kept her furnace going by burning all her firewood, then the extension leaves from her dining-room and kitchen tables then her cat's wooden house. Police guarding the Hudson River's George Washington Bridge turned back convertibles, fear ful that jagged chunks of ice, torn by wind from the girders and cables far overhead, might crash through the fabric roofs...
...theme of the exhibit was cancer, and its motto "Conquest of Fear." At first glance it might have been expected to cause more fear than it conquered, for on display in the Marine Corps Armory in Rome, Ga. last week were 60 anatomically accurate, full-colored models of all the human organs commonly invaded by cancer, showing them in the grip of its malignant growth. There were, besides, all the stainless-steel instruments with which doctors probe for cancer, or cut it out when they find it. Nothing was taboo: the cervix of the womb was shown lifesize. There...
...three-day exhibit agreed almost unanimously that they were heartened by what they saw. Sponsor of the exhibit, with the local chapter of the American Cancer Society, was Georgia-born Surgeon Crawford R. Brock, who believes that only utter frankness can break down something even worse than the fear of cancer itself-the fear of a diagnosis of cancer, which keeps too many victims from the doctor until it is too late...
...back on the track within two weeks, running a half-mile at 35 m.p.h. While this is no mark for a woman to aim at, Dr. Moss suggested that quick return to full activity should be better for humans than the average present-day convalescence. Patients should not fear that their wounds will tear apart; many surgeons hold that a clean scar, normally healed, is as strong after a few days as it will ever be. Added famed Presidential Surgeon Isidor S. Ravdin: there are measurable medical benefits in getting patients up sooner. Their breathing improves faster as do metabolic...