Word: fearfully
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviets are "raring to go," said a senior U.S. official, "we're not so raring." That has begun to disturb not only the Soviets but many American foreign policy specialists and Congressmen as well. They fear the Administration is passing up a historic opportunity to move beyond the superpower confrontation and risking the danger that if Gorbachev is not helped, he will fall and be replaced by a hard-liner. Senate majority leader George Mitchell charged last week that Bush and company seem "almost nostalgic about the cold war." To many, the Bush team seems stubbornly reluctant to move beyond...
...Fear about physical repercussions can also cause the friends and families of bulimic women to stress the repair of physical damage rather than the underlying emotional hurt, Schwartz says...
There is widespread fear that the Khmer Rouge, which from 1975 to 1978 sent at least a million Cambodians to their death as it tried to turn the country into a primitive agrarian commune, could fight its way back to power...
Honecker and his colleagues are well aware that theirs is a rump state, legitimized only by the practice of what they call socialism. Hungary and Poland could dilute their socialism and still remain ethnic and national entities. But such experiments in East Germany, its leaders fear, would simply hasten the swallowing of their state by the larger Federal Republic next door. In the well-noted words of senior Communist Party ideologist Otto Reinhold, "What reason would a capitalist G.D.R. have for existing next to a capitalist Federal Republic? None, naturally...
...waged a protracted armed struggle against South African rule, returned to Namibia in time to register as a voter in the November elections for a constituent assembly, which will prepare the territory for final independence next year. But SWAPO's election director, Hage Geingob, is among those who fear that Namibia's history of political bloodshed may not yet be over. If any harm came to Nujoma, he said, "the consequences would be too ghastly to contemplate...