Word: feared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Fear of Fear. Nehru delivered a major address at a dinner given jointly by the Foreign Policy Association, the India League of America, the East and West Association, and the American Institute of Pacific Relations, in the Waldorf-Astoria's grand ballroom. Said he: "People talk about India's desire for leadership in Asia. We have no desire for leadership . . . [But] whether we want to or not ... we have to play an important role . . . There is no halfway house . . . Either India makes good [or] she just fades away...
...just went about telling us, 'Don't be afraid. Why are you afraid? What can happen to you?'. . . And we realized with a tremendous lifting of the burden that was within us that there was really nothing to fear. .. Even the poor peasant straightened his back a little . . . Fear was something we had created . . . We have lost all fear of external aggression . . . unless of course we ourselves go to pieces. Then it would be our fault...
Firing Line. In Wayzata, Minn., demonstrating that there is no reason to fear a gun "if you always keep the safety catch on," State Highway Patrolman Fred Steege reached for his holster, shot himself...
Standing stolidly, his feet apart, his chin jutting out at the old, defiant angle, he cried: "If the government of Britain is entrusted to us at this crisis in her fate, we will do best for all, without fear or favor, without class or party bias . . . but with the clear and faithful simplicity that we showed in the days of Dunkirk . . ." An thony Eden, Churchill's deputy, also echoed wartime urgency: "We can promise only hard and challenging times...
...years that followed, Shawinigan Falls expanded to became a bustling lumber town, and Mayor Thibeaudeau came to realize that he had less of a novelty and more of a traffic menace on his hands. It became clear that the moose was quite without fear and that sooner or later it would plough into some local citizen or other minor obstacle which chanced to be in its way. It was also quite clear that full grown moose would suffer little or no damage from such a collision, but that the other party more than likely would be jolted right into...