Word: phobias
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...find out for the Pictorial's 5,170,000 readers what the U.S. is really like. "It is horrifying," wrote Champion, who had set foot on U.S. shores for the first time just five days before, "to find everyone [in New York] suffering from war and atom phobia in their most advanced forms." Correspondent Champion found bombproof safe-deposit boxes "strictly for dollars ... no humans need apply," a Broadway "populated with sex-mad morons," and "one advertisement everywhere: Blood donors wanted. High cash payments given on the spot." (Champion admitted later that "everywhere" was actually only in small classified...
...release news have to be unanimous; any one of the 14 member nations can block such a proposal. Though information officers on NATO's staff have fought to get more news out, military men have been afflicted with what NATO Secretary General Lord Ismay called a "secrecy phobia." Correspondents also complain that incoming SHAPE officers have no idea of 1) how to deal with the press, and 2) how to use NATO news to counteract Communist propaganda...
Most athletes fear overtraining; they worry about losing that "sharp edge" of condition. Sometimes they try to ease this phobia by judicious absences from over-strenuous practices, thus avoiding bad after effects. And the coaches fret both evils...
...crouched for the gun, the old phobia surged up inside McKenley. When he got a good start and led the field to the first turn, he felt suddenly relieved. But when he thought he heard feet padding too close to him, he spurted again. As his lead widened to 15 yards, friends shouted, "Slow down, Herb! Slow down!" He had stepped the first 440 yards in 48.8 seconds, near-record time, but it was too fast a pace for the 600. With half a lap to go he began to stagger, and Brooklyn's Frank Fox made...
Miss Steinert, who was assigned to do the Petrillo personality, spent four hours with him straightening out such items as his schooling ("I was still in the fourth grade after nine years, so I quit"), his phobia for germs ("Only it's not like Winchell says. I open them doorknobs without the Kleenex...