Word: feared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year, they will live with local residents and take any courses in the University they want. Typical of their aim in these studies was Herbert Kundler's remark that he wanted to see how a government can rule by good will or "must people be governed by discipline and fear...
Washington had known it was coming, just as surely as it had known the storm was coming. Nevertheless, the news hit the nation with the jarring impact of a fear suddenly become fact. The comfortable feeling of U.S. monopoly was gone forever. The fact was too big and too brutally simple for quick digestion. What had been a threat for some time in the future, hard to visualize, easy to forget, had become a threat for today, to be lived with...
...boys themselves to fill a vacuum left by a lax faculty some 250 years ago, Winchester's cloistered walls seldom echo to serious trouble. Says Headmaster Oakeshott: "The boys seem to accept the proposition that there are certain things which are just not done, not from a fear of punishment, but from a desire to conform to tradition...
...Yale to the sudden cancellation of Saturday's Bowl game-the first such occurrence in over 35 years- was termed "favorable" last night by the Daily News, Yale newspaper. Students, the paper said, seem glad to take precautions against the possible spread of polio, but there is no widespread fear or panic...
...complex political and economic uncertainties are being focused not on a program of constructive consideration and remedy but on an essentially negative fear of Communism," President Jordan said...