Word: fearfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...estimate wrapped in a dark warning and covered by a blank check. There was an uncomfortable suspicion that the U.S. was being suckered into a premature manning of battle stations, that U.S. weapons and money might be dissipated in driblets from Greenland to Greece. There was a nagging fear that ECA might help keep Europe convalescent but never put it back on its feet. There was also a petulant feeling that Europe should get off its hunkers. Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch seemed to share this mood. Back from a quick trip to Europe, he was asked whether Europe might help...
...Said Acheson : "The Soviet Union today maintains the largest peacetime military force in the history of the world . . . The combination of ... a huge aggressive force on one side and admittedly inadequate defense forces on the other has created a morbid and pervasive sense of insecurity in Western Europe. The fear is justified. The danger is real, however much some may try to argue it out of existence...
Harry C. Saltzstein and Robert S. Pollack report on fear of cancer of the breast. 'There are, perhaps, few conditions which cause as much anxiety and worry to the patient as do tumors of the breast. There are deep . . . reasons which make the thought of loss of the breast terrifying to the average woman...
...paintings, drawings and prints, gathered together by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, showed Klee at his wittiest, his most charming, and most terrifying. Landscape with Accents and Little Dune Picture had the skilled naivete of antique Chinese drawings, while Lady Demon, Country Dwarf and Mask of Fear were like small windows into a skeleton-filled closet. Exercises, a few squiggly lines portraying an amazed dog watching three uncomfortably contorted human beings, was as sharp and prodding as a Thurber vignette...
...before 600 lunching Los Angeles bigwigs one day last week rose Lever Bros. Co.'s plain-talking President Charles Luckman. He had something to say about the psychology of fear: the American people, he thought, were talking themselves into a depression...