Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...broken levees have been repaired, leaving a constant threat of new floods from even slight rises in the Mississippi. Some Arkansas farmers have already planted three crops, seen them all washed away, are now planting a fourth. Stagnant waters have formed tremendous swamps, mosquito-infested. There is fear of a large scale outbreak of malaria. Mr. Hoover has estimated that Red Cross funds will last till Nov. 1, with $3,000,000 left over. There seemed little prospect that the flood area, as a whole, would be in any way self-supporting by November or for some time after...
...America does not fear us; America knows there is no possibility of war with Great Britain?then why does Washington insist on limiting our navy below the strength the Admiralty states we require? . . . [Referring to a point in the U. S. proposal, and banging his fist on the table] This is perfect nonsense!" Immediately Mr. Gibson demanded a retraction which Viscount Cecil made...
With this proportion in mind, observers scanned afresh the statement of M. Stalin. Did he really fear an invasion by the Grand Duke Nikolai? A likely hypothesis seemed to be that Dictator Stalin was talking chiefly for home consumption. He and the Communist party cannot fail to benefit by the growing up among the Russian masses of an idea that the Communist regime alone stands as their defender against an "Alliance" headed by Great Britain...
...time, and in morals science has created an entirely new moral situation. For when you have introduced contraceptions you have changed your moral situation. You have done away with that old, but very effective weapon which has deterred many a person from going beyond the accepted moral code-fear of consequences. That fear no longer rests in the breast of any scientifically educated man or woman, and along with the passing of that fear is also going a vast amount of ignorance and misinformation upon the whole sexual relationship...
...Most Germans think of me as a kind of monomaniac, as a hairy personification of our poor Alsace-Lorraine, incapable of nourishing other designs than those of vengeance." Thus spoke Raymond Poincaré last week, and spoke the exact truth. Germans do hate and fear him more than any other Frenchman-for it was he who sent French and Belgian troops to occupy the Ruhr in 1924. Moreover he is the strongest statesman in Europe now opposing the famed "Locarno spirit," a conception which would admit Germany fully and freely to the comradeship of nations. His speech last week...