Word: dreading
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Many among the democracies fear and mistrust Soviet Russia. They dread the inroads of an economic order that would be destructive of their own. Such fear is weakness. Russia is neither going to eat us nor seduce us. That is ... unless our democratic institutions and our free economy become so frail through abuse and failure in practice as to make us soft and vulnerable. The best answer to Communism is a living, vibrant, fearless democracy-economic, social, and political. All we need to do is to stand up and perform according to our professed ideals. Then those ideals will...
...promise. You are betrayed. You fought for something that you did not get. And the glory of the armies and the navies of the United States is gone like a dream in the night, and there ensues upon it, in the suitable darkness of the night, the nightmare of dread which lay upon the nations before this war came; and there will come sometime, in the vengeful Providence of God, another struggle in which, not a few hundred thousand fine men from America will have to die, but as many millions as are necessary to accomplish the final freedom...
...Nitro Chymica chemical-manufacturing company. His father and mother rushed to his bedside. Four days after the diagnosis of infantile paralysis President Vargas left for a conference at Natal. From his good friend Franklin D. Roosevelt he could expect deep sympathy and an inspiring example of recovery from the dread illness which had stricken...
...shape the future by our own actions today. We shall take tomorrow in our strong hands and mold it to our own will." But he pointed out that "Idealism alone does not explain this will of ours; a clear sense of patriot self-interest is just as important. The dread of futility turns our minds to postwar planning. Though we have no specific details in mind, there are certain general principles on which most of us agree...
...coward, who must run when he is scared, is the one to dread terror. None but the brave can afford to fear...