Word: unafraidness
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...consumer spends his extra income only when he is in a good mood-and his good mood in 1964 was one of the year's happiest events for the U.S. The consumer has been spending 93? of every dollar that he earns, and is unafraid about borrowing to spend even more. One reason for his continued buoyancy: he has lost almost all fear that a serious downturn will occur. In a nation in which half of the population is under 26, more spending than ever is being done by people who have grown up knowing only the good times...
...lighting failed in the A and B entries of Adams House last night, creating no great disturbance among the occupants, who are singularly unafraid of the dark. They poured into the street, clamoring good-naturedly. But among them was one who took the misfortune a little more seriously. The art class's nude model scrambled into her clothes and hurried off in the night...
...muscles that open the womb and push the child out through the birth canal. Pavlovian psychologists in Soviet Russia took Dick Read's idea one step farther. Both fear and pain, they reasoned, could be overcome by conditioning. During the 1940s, Soviet doctors began educating mothers to be unafraid of childbirth, and by 1951 hospitals in Moscow, Kharkov and Leningrad all used the natural-childbirth method...
...PEACE. "The search for peace requires the utmost intelligence, the clearest vision, and a strong sense of reality," warn the Democrats. "Responsible leadership, unafraid but refusing to take needless risk, has turned the tide in freedom's favor." Said the G.O.P. plank: "A dynamic strategy aimed at victory-pressing always for initiative for freedom, rejecting always appeasement and withdrawal-reduces the risk of nuclear...
...lines can blossom as unexpectedly as the desert cactus. One of his repeated, even self-conscious influences in such passages is Walt Whitman ("Be with me, Whitman, maker of catalogues / . . . the terrible hunger for objects quails me"). But for Roethke, "all finite things reveal infinitude," and . . . if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant...