Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cleanse our fair world from fear...
...indignant Letter to the Editor, Lyricist Lias asked the Guardian: "If we believe in God, surely it cannot be wrong to ask for his help-as the Lord's Prayer does-in delivering the world from fear and violence." NATO itself, being anxious to keep the peace, made clear that it had blessed no hymns. "If any hymn was ever proposed to the NATO Council," said one official, "it would have a good deal more trouble getting approved than any note to Khrushchev...
...first reaction to the idea is fear that Dassin may have tried something that could only resemble one of DeMille's tremendous Biblical farces. Many will stay away on this account. Others, attending the film despite this doubt, will come out hard pressed not to praise it effusively...
Leading the minority opinion, Justice Hugo Black stated, "Fear and abhorrence of the governmental power to try people twice for the same conduct is one of the oldest ideas in Western Civilization...
Talking of the traditional fear of the government's power to try a person twice, he emphasized the clause in the fifth Amendment which states: "nor any person be subject for the same offense to be twice put in jeopardy of life or limb...