Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...nobody's business. . . . "We seek not merely to make government a mechanical implement, but to give it the vibrant personal character that is the embodiment of human charity. We are poor indeed if this nation cannot afford to lift from every recess of American life the dread fear of the unemployed that they are not needed in the world. We cannot afford to accumulate a deficit in the books of human fortitude. . . . "Governments can err-Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins...
...nearly half a century I have sat in Parliament and never before have I heard a British Foreign Secretary confess that Britain had been defeated. This is British surrender to Italy without the firing of a shot! Surrender in fear of the Italian air force...
...ultimately in the councils of the Bank of France, threatened Frenchmen who have funds abroad with confiscation of equivalent funds unless the foreign deposit is reported to the Government, and implied that his "Baby Bonds" had better find quick buyers-or else. "We must conquer egotism and fear!" cried Vincent Auriol with something of Franklin Roosevelt's lilt. "Already I have in my hand a list of citizens who have evaded their duty by not reporting funds abroad. We must conquer fraud and fear...
Director Vidal ". . . is an amiable gentleman. He has a good background. Our fear is that he is too amiable, that he is lacking in iron positiveness and the determination to keep the employes under his direction functioning according to schedule...
...guillotine only five years before. Carolina's husband, King Ferdinand, was a lazy, ineffectual, long-nosed barbarian whose concept of statesmanship was simply to keep out of trouble and throw coins to any crowd of the lower classes. Carolina's life was dominated by her hatred and fear of the French Republic, by her determination to lead Naples in a holy war against France. She was encouraged in this suicidal plan by the English, particularly by Lady Hamilton, wife of the English Ambassador, Nelson's mistress, a huge, handsome, hearty woman who had been picked...