Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...plainly, the regime's conservative rulers were ready for the step that they had delayed for fear of popular reaction - a wholesale purge. When the 180 members of the Central Committee of the Communist Party assembled last week in the ornate baroque Spanish Hall overlooking Prague, the whole country knew that their first order of business was to pronounce sentence against the men who had sought to give Czechoslovak Communism a human face. The only question was how se vere the sentences would...
...will have to determine whether it should soften its standoffish attitude toward the rest of the world. Eventually it will no doubt have to consider toning down its hostility toward the U.S., which has moved from a romantic and sometimes patronizing vision of China to one of exaggerated fear, abetted by China's unyielding animosity. Washington could aid a change in Peking's posture by breaking down some of its own barriers against China and venturing a more conciliatory attitude...
...into the shrine before visiting hours. Fire damage could have been greatly reduced if modern extinguishers had been available in the mosque, the report added, but Arab officials had rejected an earlier Israeli offer of fire-fighting equipment. Their reasoning, the report went on, was: "There is nothing to fear; God is great and he will protect the place...
...that passage, James Baldwin gives one reason why he came to hate and fear white people. He looked at their art as into a mirror, and could not see himself there at all. In the "disastrously explicit medium of language" that he uses so well, Baldwin adds a yet icier thought: "This did not mean that I loved black people; on the contrary, I despised them, possibly because they failed to produce Rembrandt...
Almost $3 billion in bonds that would have financed public construction-including a new school for Hondo and a modern hospital for Iron County-have proved totally unmarketable. Probably a much greater total of bonds has not been scheduled for sale because local officials fear that they would find no buyers. Michigan voters, for example, last year approved two issues totaling $435 million to finance antipollution and park-building programs, but state authorities have never tried to set a date for investment-banking houses to bid on them. They have reason for their timidity. About half of the investment-banking...