Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...need not fear "Caesarism"; there are ample checks against it. What we do need to fear is incompetence...
...hesitate to commit themselves to any proposal, platform, or program. It is well said of most College petitions on national matters that "those who sign don't read, and those who do read the don't sign." Though the the scattered remnants of McCarthyism account for some of this fear, it is both childish and self-deceptive to place even most of the blame on the late demagogue from Wisconsin. A large number of students remain politically naive, and of those who have studied the issues, many prefer to keep silent until they have learned more...
...students tend to be more conservative in retaining the religious tradition of their childhood, the girls are somewhat more inclined to disapprove of mixed marriages. Among the reasons most frequently checked were: "problem of children's religious education," "dislike of certain doctrines in this other faith," "parental reaction," and "fear of 'mixed marriage' in general...
Behind the frivolity of abortive riots and half-hearted football rallies, the final year in college revealed a growing tension between fear of war and growing suspicion of the fascist regimes. On the one hand, the National Student's League tried to organize a general walkout on classes by students and professors to protest against the trend toward war. On the other hand, the dictatorships were watched, discussed, and often dismissed lightly as misguided, at worst. Professors, one by one, discounted the importance or durability of Hitler's regime. Articles by Mussolini, appearing in the CRIMSON, received little controversial attention...
...determined that her husband, Theodore Roosevelt Jr., the ex-President's oldest son, should derive the deep strengths of the T.R. tradition from his father without being blotted out by it. "You know. Father," she said to T.R. one day at Sagamore Hill, "Ted has always worried for fear he would not be worthy of you." T.R. replied: "Worthy of me? I walk with my head higher because...