Word: feared
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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These arguments are typical. They are endeavors to rationalize irrational prejudices. And they mask the real issues. Down deep in their hearts the antagonists of birth control are merely oppressed with fear for their miserable souls...
...said that birth control will bring peace, harmony, and love to the home by freeing parents from the haunting fear of having children which they are unprepared for physically and economically. By encouraging early marriage, it will lessen prostitution and promote morality...
...twisted figure of a man hobbles into the House of Commons. Doorkeepers pity his crippled body, and portals open as the tapping thump of his two rubber-tipped canes approaches. But statesmen do not pity the Right Honorable Philip Snowden. They respect the power and swiftness of his mind, fear the sting of his unpleasant, rasping tongue. He, as Britain's only Laborite Chancellor of the Exchequer, presented a maiden budget (TIME, May 12, 1924), so clear and masterful that cheers rang from every quarter of the House. Now, since Labor has gone out and Conservatism come in,- Philip...
...began to reason, to eliminate crime from the earth. . . . What we have suffered during these seven years no human tongue can say, and yet you see me before you, not trembling, you see me looking you in your eyes straight, not blossoming, not changing color, not ashamed or in fear. . . . "We know that you [Judge Thayer] have spoke your hostility against us with friends of yours on the train, at the University Club of Boston, on the golf club of Worcester, Mass. I am sure that if the people who know all what you say against us would have...
...people is just. Our courts are prevailingly just. They are not unduly friendly to any class; they are not negligent of the interests of the poor. It is, only a remarkable grouping of special psychological conditions that brings about this miscarriage. The trial was begun in an atmosphere of fear and hatred toward men of radical opinions, anarchists, communists, pacifists. The land was to be purged of such poison by fair means or foul: "away with such fellows from the earth". That panic, with its follies and wrongs, has largely subsided; but these two men have been mentally placed...