Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...repercussions in the international sphere of the internal policy and not as something separate and distinct. The three motives of the internal policy and therefore of the foreign policy which he will discuss are: economic security, military security, and national prestige. He sums these up as, "food, fear, face...
...which shows no physical symptoms. The victim is ridden by an obsession of which he is aware but which he cannot control; otherwise he can think clearly. Some psychasthenics cannot avoid stepping on the cracks of sidewalks or washing their hands every few minutes. Among psychasthenics are claustrophobes, who fear enclosed spaces; agoraphobes, who fear open spaces; acrophobes, who fear high places; zoophobes, who fear animals; siderodromophobes, who fear locomotives...
Anxiety States are the commonest of all neuroses. The patient is in a continuous condition of fear, physically and mentally. His heart palpitates; his limbs are weak; he cannot digest his food; he sweats easily; he gets out of breath. Mentally he is often the victim of one of the foregoing phobias. Dr. Sigmund Freud believes that anxiety states are always caused by sexual frustration. But, says FORTUNE, "most psychiatrists would also include financial worries, domestic friction, and other non-sexual causes. In some ways an anxiety state resembles an acute neurasthenia...
Toronto suspected last week that Premier Hepburn's Hydro bill might be a colossal bluff. Having put the fear of God and the Premier into the hearts of the private power companies in Quebec. Hydro might yet negotiate new contracts at reduced rates. With that to his credit, the Premier would quietly pull the teeth from his toothy measure...
...once again the nations are consulting over a common enemy. Except for the fact that Germany is alone in her questionable glory, she is the object of the fear and distrust of all Europe. That any concrete results will emerge from either Stresa or the subsequent Council meeting in Geneva is highly dubious. For the tragedy of Europe, today as in 1914, is that there is no man with a sufficiently long view to appreciate that the only path to peace lies in collective action, that in crises such as the present, nations must submerge their selfish interests and pool...