Word: fearfulness
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Psychologist Charles's attack upon literature's one-eyedness respecting the American schoolteacher is, I fear, one-eyed also...
...College, maids are reported about to ask for a five-day week. Officials fear that severe reduction of undergraduate maid service may eventually have to be considered if room rents are to be kept "reasonable...
...Roman Empire, she said, our families are declining, our morals are growing weaker, people are moving from the country to the city, and governments always fear revolution. "The artists who painted great pictures in the Middle Ages are now painting Petty girls and cans of baked beans...
...ground, he checked his engine himself. For fear of jamming his cranky guns in combat, he examined every bullet himself before he loaded his machine-gun belts. When he went on leave he engaged in some of the most spectacular binges Paris had ever seen, but when he was flying he was a strict teetotaler-even though many of his mates drank hard at night against the chances of quick death at dawn. On Sept. 24, 1918 he was commissioned a captain and put in command of the squadron...
Although the cheers were justified, Cripps's dollar triumph was not an unqualified victory. Said the Manchester Guardian next day: ". . . We probably need not fear any major shock during the rest of the year, but the 'breathing space' will not be prolonged forever . . ." One trouble was that the surplus had been achieved more by cutting imports than by increasing exports. Most of the actual dollar earnings were made by sterling areas other than Britain, e.g., Malaya, Australia, British West Africa...