Word: feared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unstable nations." He blamed the failure to intervene in Hun ary in 1956 on Washington's "immoral and suicidal willingness to act as if there were Communist legitimacy." The U.S. had allowed itself to become intimidated by the fear of nuclear war, he said. "Above all," Laird concluded, "while we have the power, we must aim at confronting the enemy directly...
Whatever the differences among the Soviet leaders may have been, Hardy is unequivocal about the outcome: "Stalin's heirs occupy all the positions of power. Like Stalin, they fear the people and the truth. They created the Czechoslovak crisis and used it to intimidate the positive forces which oppose them at home...
...danger. There is a possibility that Washington will adopt the Annex program for its entire school system. The Strivers would like to see the idea spread, but they know that a large part of the Annex's appeal is that it is voluntary. Massive adoption, they fear, might well kill the spirit that makes Freedom Annex ring...
...Lasky that he was being investigated by a Department of Justice official, an act he blames on Robert Kennedy-and an act that may have been the genesis of RFK. "I can't prove he was personally involved," Lasky admits. "But maybe I was most influenced by the fear that he threw into my wife...
...wizard who can make people materialize from his mind? Is he only a psychiatrist, trying to bring Lily back to sanity by enacting her fantasies in life? Is he a master of metatheater, in which everyone must play a part? Or is he God? Although Urfe comes to fear for his mind, he cannot leave the island. "It's like being halfway through a book," he says, driven to follow the maze to its end regardless of twists and turns...