Word: feare
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...stranger to fear, but I have never endured fear as intense or as protracted as I experienced that night. I was so frightened I could hear myself sweat...
...legs, Joel hobbled and crept through the holocaust to patch ripped chests, plug bottles of plasma into dangling arms, give bloody mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to corpses and wounded alike, shoot Syrettes of morphine into mangled men. He allowed himself only one Syrette for his own wounds, for fear that he might dull his mind and hamper his work. At dawn, the job done, Joel recalls looking at himself: hands encrusted with blood to the wrists, legs thick with edema and dirty bandages. He lay under a tree and cried for the first time since...
...foot of the Washington Monument when he arrived. U.S. Ambassador to France Myron Herrick spoke for most when he declared: "He stood forth amidst clamor and crowds, the very embodiment of fearless, kindly, cultivated American youth-unspoiled, unspoilable. A nation which breeds such boys need never fear for its future." Young Lindbergh seemed engagingly modest, and remarked that he had merely wanted to prove the possibilities of future air travel and the need for commercial airports...
...often a last attempt to communicate. He put snakes in beds, made power dives with passengers given to airsickness. But he never seemed either happy or go-lucky. He cultivated his body as a trust; he not only refused to drink or smoke but also gave up coffee for fear it would spoil his reflexes. He once made up a list of 61 "character factors" in his diary, checked off his score at the end of each...
...narrow channel of European protectionism rather than onto the broad ocean of economic cooperation. The economic theories that have intrigued and invigorated the Western world ever since the end of World War II have mostly pointed to precisely the condition of universal trade that De Gaulle seems to fear...