Word: fear
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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They wear blue berets and brandish baseball bats. They profess fear of genocide and want to train their youth for combat. Some have been involved in campus brawls and dustups at political rallies. Last week they ran a $2,790 newspaper ad in New York showing six young men standing before a building with clubs in hand. In an age of Black Panthers, white vigilantes, and apparently millions of armed and angry individuals, there would already seem to be a surfeit of quasi-military partisans. Threat, however, tends to breed counterthreat. Out of the people traditionally identified with the word...
...Soviet puppet. Once jailed himself for political reasons, Husák has given his solemn word that there will be no return to the reign of police terror that characterized the days of deposed Stalinist Boss Antonin Novotny. So far, there have been no reported arrests. The fear is that Husák will be elbowed aside by the new No. 2 man. He is Lubomir Strougal, 45, a conservative Czech who is a tough political infighter and has no qualms about political arrests. Gustav Husák spent nine years in Novotny's prisons, while Strougal served...
...course, this is because I fear the retribution of a puritanical God. If you enjoy it, it can't be good for you. But there's more...
...Fear is driving buyers from the showrooms, and auto sales in Japan have slowed markedly in the past few weeks. If the trend continues, Japanese manufacturers may not realize their ambition to overtake the West Germans this year as the world's second-largest car producers. Nissan President Katsuji Kawamata concedes that the automakers have been more concerned with marketing than with safety. To ensure continued candor by the industry, the Diet is drawing up legislation to force the automakers to report defective cars and publicly recall them for repairs...
...Tilea, Rumanian minister in London, was encouraged, probably by a Tory foreign affairs expert, to believe that his country was next on Hitler's list. This fear, passed on to Lord Halifax, the Foreign Secretary, stirred the somnolent British Cabinet to diplomatic action, which took the form of a mutual-defense pact with Poland...