Word: fear
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this reality. Margaret Thatcher was helped by the race issue during her campaign. "The moment a minority threatens to become a big one," she said on TV early last year, "people get frightened. The British character has done so much for democracy, for law, that if there is any fear that it might be swamped, people are going to react and be rather hostile to those coming in." After that speech, Thatcher's standing in the polls shot up 11%, because she seemed to be granting respectability to anti-immigrant sentiment...
...Chief was eventually defeated by Liberal Lester Pearson, partly because he refused to arm Canada's NATO force with U.S. atomic weapons. Elected to Commons for a record 13th time last May, he appeared on TV five days before his death, decrying the divisions in his country: "Suspicion, fear, all those things that deny unity are present...
...Democratic targets fear the bombardment...
Selection committees generally keep out the clearly unqualified. But they also will settle for what Senator Adlai Stevenson calls "the lowest common denominator." Says Stevenson: "I fear the Brandeises and Carswells alike will be screened out and a high level of mediocrity will be enshrined in the judiciary." Some desirable candidates have refused to be considered by selection committees; they did not want to go through the public-screening process and face possible rejection...
...live under Communist rule. Ironically, however, the curb on the exodus will only increase the misery of the many people who wish to leave but now cannot. To cut the refugee flow, the Vietnamese have stepped up police patrols along their coasts, and some Western representatives at Geneva now fear that Hanoi is violating some of the same human rights that the conference was convened to protect...