Word: feared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Life jackets were dropped, lost or thrown aside in the crush and panic. Some passengers could not swim, others cringed inside the cabin in fear of the shark-infested sea. In six minutes the plane sank. A few survivors, who had scrambled out, reached the island. Others floated in the water until Coast Guard boats, guided by the eerie swaying light of plane-dropped flares, picked them up. Of the 81 aboard, 53 were lost, including Pilot Cockrill and the five infants, all but three of the 20 women...
...majority of Berliners still supported the strike, but some were beginning to express impatience at crowded buses and long walks from home to work. More were beginning to fear that unless the strike ended, Berlin would not build up a stockpile of fuel for the winter...
Despite their peril, South Koreans still hope as well as fear. At Kaesong, a border city which North Koreans often raid (they killed 30 people there last fortnight), I visited the lovely garden of a wealthy Korean. The owner had moved to Seoul months ago, fearing Communists would nab him. But his gardens are perfectly kept. The head gardener, surprised by my surprise at this, explained: "He hopes to come back. What is any garden but an expression of faith in the future...
...contented either with the United Nations or with the general situation in Europe ... I am not contented with myself . . . with the development of my character . . . and with my literary career ... At any rate, there seems to me very little ground for general contentment . . . and I must repeat ... I fear the contented man. I fear him, because there is no progress unless there is discontent . . . Without it today, I even believe, there can be no inner peace of mind...
...with almost neurotic zest, James recalled "the most appalling yet most admirable nightmare of my life," in which he had first been driven to "unutterable fear" by a "presence" and had then turned about and chased it down a long hallway. Throughout his life James was fascinated by the supernatural. He read Poe's horror tales, thought several of Hawthorne's fantasies "little masterpieces," and relished the late 19th Century pseudo-scientific stories about mesmerism or "animal magnetism." In his European travels, he spent many weekends at castles where family ghosts were indispensable furnishings...