Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...example, Prof. Latane is an expert on Latin America. He knows that since 1900, U. S. investments in the Caribbean, Central and South America have increased from the nest egg of $300,000,000 to the imperial fortune of $5,000,000,000. As an historian he stated his fear that so much money would lead the U. S. into imperialism of the bad sort, and concluded: "We are facing one of the greatest struggles in American history, the struggle between imperialism and democracy...
...Stand aside, ye flabby ones! Stand aside ye fainthearted, ye who fear reprisals from power corporations and their wealthy and powerful allies! Ye who are unafraid will go forward with us in this issue that must be settled right if the Nation is to preserve a Government of the people, free and unfettered...
Since the Prime Minister of Rumania, bearded, bulking, bowed Vintila Bratiano, mortally hates but does not fear the Soviet Power, he ignored Tchitcherin's protest...
...with sheer hate, remorseless, soulless, infernal. The defeated crocodile, mangled and dead, is not eaten until it has partially decayed and thus become more succulent to the victor. Pigmies. Suspicious of the white man, Congo Pigmies often set thin, poisoned stakes point upward in his path. He, knowing or fearing that they are always watching, perhaps with poisoned arrows drawn, may without difficulty become crazed with fear. The few whites who claim familiarity with Congo Pigmies have reported that these four-foot folk not only claim to be descended from monkeys, but state that they know they are, because...
Rumors of Italian panic were whooped up on the hostile Paris Bourse until even in Manhattan, where so many financiers are notoriously pro-Fascist, quotations on the most impeccably secured Italian bonds moved down as much as 1¾ points. As uncertainty grew to fear the Italian lira, which Count Volpi placed on a gold basis cf 5.26? last December, sank abruptly to 5.23½, a low record...