Word: fearfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Soviets mean this talk of peaceful competition, then they have nothing to fear from the impartial rules, impartially judged, which will make such peaceful competition possible...
...lotus)." The phrase flutters from tall poles outside villages, from trees and cairns; it is stuffed inside the chortens' hollow towers at crossroads, and revolves constantly in the prayer wheels in every temple, nearly every house. There is gold in Tibet that cannot be mined for fear of offending the gods of earth, though panning gold from the river beds is permitted...
Three years ago there was not a single antidiabetic drug that U.S. doctors could prescribe generally, and of two under test, one (carbutamide) was dropped for fear of liver damage. Diabetes victims were slaves to insulin and the needle. Last week 515 experts gathered in Manhattan under the auspices of the New York Academy of Sciences for the second symposium in seven months on the several drugs now being promoted: three on general prescription,* three being tested on patients under research safeguards...
...fear of paternalism sometimes extends in the perverse direction of keeping hands off one group by exerting control over another. The Young Republican vote-buying of two years ago was seized upon by the Student Council as a way of making its power felt in the land, but before it could take any action, the Administration stepped in, refused to authorize the Council to take the action it wished, and took no action itself against the HYRC...
...times compelling, at times dynamic, always in control as the man who owed it to himself to hang. His magnetism almost steals the show; but there is competition. Marguerite Tarrant's witch also draws attention for a beauty of speech and splendor of costume. She is fascinating in her fear of death, and radiant in the night when "Nothing is what it seems to be." Despite the "insect life" surrounding them, the young love, and do so with conviction...