Word: feare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...enter the quarrels of Europe during war, we must stay in them in time of peace as well. It is madness to send our soldiers to be killed as we did in the last war if we turn the course of peace over to the greed, the fear and the intrigue of European nations...
...dreams of getting a slice of Rumania flourished under the belief that Russia had embarked on an aggressive policy; in Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, the countries most directly threatened by German-Russian collaboration, the meaning of Germany's drive through Poland was clear. No historical precedent justified a fear that such ill-assorted partners as Germany, Russia, Italy, Japan, Turkey, Spain could embark upon, or long sustain, secret agreements to be disclosed like bombs, and followed by grandiose military campaigns that were like mopping-up actions. But the fate of Poland, and the way it was destroyed, planted that...
...like ivy, till there was such a shortage that some lingerie factories began making them. Instead of sandbags, the lawyers of Gray's Inn protected their windows with heavy legal tomes. A rabbi banned the sounding of Shophar ram's horn on the Jewish New Year for fear the populace would take it for an air-raid signal. Stores sold luminous paint for switches and doorknobs, "gas costumes" guaranteed to resist mustard gas 45 minutes, furniture suitable for cellars, empty flashlights (batteries long since sold...
...Douglas MacArthur is now training them to defend themselves against the Japanese. "We who are about to die salute you," quotes the gloomy padre of Fort Mysang as the soldiers leave. This pessimistic view seems justified until Dr. Canavan (Gary Cooper), an Army surgeon with a Freudian attitude towards fear, gets to work on the Filipino morale. After an epidemic of cholera, a chase in the trap-filled jungle, and a bloodcurdling Moro attack, Dr. Canavan's and Uncle Sam's proteges come...
...faire. The Freshman year is without any doubt the hardest of the four, when measured against the experience of the students involved. There will be work, and plenty of it; but the greatest danger is not the work, but the worry arising from it. More Freshmen fail because of fear than because of inability or laziness. That is a categorical statement, but true. And the remedy for fear is the knowledge that for every confused Freshman, 999 others are in the same boat; also, that teachers--in the courses especially designed for first year men--realize perfectly well that their...