Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...project lagged; King Carol loafed in exile with his girl friend Magda Lupescu; British suspicion of Russia, which perhaps prompted the thought of a Black Sea base in the first place, gave way to fear of a rearmed Germany; Balkan politics remained Balkan politics, and neither the base nor the Rumanian Navy amounted to much...
Hambleden was shocked by what he read about Countess Edda Ciano in TIME, but at first no reason was given for the ban. Questioned by the daily press, which saw something dangerously approaching censorship, the wholesalers attributed the ban to their fear of libel suits. In the 15 years it has been circulated in Great Britain TIME has never been sued for libel. Though startled by the ban in a country which boasts of its free press, TIME planned no action, left the business of Britain's press censorship up to Britain's press itself...
...magnetic." The Colonel certainly was. When all four turned up in New Orleans after the Yankees captured the city, Colonel Carter found his playful love affair with Lillie growing serious, married her despite his need for money, the political favoritism that blocked his promotion, her father's fear of him, her sophisticated New Orleans aunt's frank advances toward him. As sardonic a figure as Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind, but far more plausible, Colonel Carter became a drinker without believing he drank, sold government supplies without believing he was dishonest, and-before Lillie...
...Simon not fear that his fellow subscribers are ungrateful. They have written several hundred letters of thanks...
Laborite Arthur Greenwood made a dutiful, taken-for-granted, defense-of-democracy and fear-of-appeasement protest against adjournment that did not ruffle the Prime Minister any more than the Opposition's 195 votes scared him. But when Critic Churchill said: "I have the feeling that things are in a dead balance. . . . The situation in Europe is graver now than it was at this time last year. . . ." the House sat up to take notice...