Word: feared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...previous readings, there was no debate on the proposed measure. The complete lack of vocal opposition to the Sullivan Bill was attributed by some Representatives to fear among the legislators of publicly opposing any measure that squelches communism...
Opponents of the bill, which would deprive educational institutions found guilty of employing subversives of their tax exemption status, fear H. 442 may be difficult to stop in the House...
...frequent supporting line for the program, however, has been that the new lend-lease will tie the North Atlantic Treaty nations into a solid defensive bloc; Walter Bedell Smith summed this up by claiming that "united strength clearly stated to the enemy ... through arms aid... is an antidote to fear...
...tied ourselves together with ropes," Dodge related. "All of us wore ico creepers on our shoes to prevent slipping. We had to watch a huge hunk of ice directly overhead for fear it might crash down...
...public. Its only impetus has come from a stubbornly stagestruck millionaire named Anthony Brady Farrell, an angel with the largest wingspread ever seen on Broadway.* In the year since Farrell took a leave from his Albany chain factory, he has spent more than $2,000,000 plunging where others fear to tread...