Word: feare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...writer suggest that what is needed is a mystical trust between all humans, a willingness to interact with others "on that one level where you do address others to their eyes, directly without fear, and with the realization that they are there...
...cities, blockaded its coasts, and pushed an already-overcrowded population of more than 8,000,000-among them 4,500,000 refugees-into a patch of bush and swampland that is one-fourth the size of Biafra's former territory. The Biafrans, most of whom are Ibo tribesmen, fear that they will be massacred just as thousands of their kinsmen in northern Nigerian cities were killed two years ago. Many are starving, but they refuse to come out of hiding in the bush...
...psychological war and seeking diplomatic advantage." The government points out that the Biafrans, led by Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu, have turned down a plan to have the Red Cross ship food through federal territory to Biafra. But Gowon insists on federal handling of any such shipments, and the Biafrans fear that his men would poison the food: they cite instances of beer laced with cyanide and powdered milk infected with bacteria found in Biafra. Even if Gowon allows the shipment, says Biafran Chief Justice Louis Mbanefo, "we would not touch...
...even when our crusades or benefactions are less extreme than these, we rarely get much credit for them. You will soon discover, I fear, the oldest and most obvious fact about the very rich: we are not loved. I could give you quite an anthology of nasty remarks made against the rich by assorted prophets and philosophers. It begins with Plato, who observed: "To be at once extremely wealthy and good is impossible." And it goes right on. Oh well, I suppose the public has a point with all our freedom from midnight money worries, fears of being fired...
...Paris-Match employees, of course, were not buying that line. They promised to economize and voted to strike in October, the first month of heavy fall advertising, if the dismissals were carried out. They fear that the famed Paris-Match spirit has been fatally damaged, that the flamboyant weekly will never be quite the same again. "We are a team, with our 1,000th issue just published," said a veteran staffer. "It was going to be a big fete with a photo exposition at the Louvre with 1,000 pictures. Now, instead, the mood is one of mourning...