Word: fearfulness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...State Department's . . . sycophancy toward Great Britain, plus abject fear of Russia and its least organized satellite, has betrayed China, and is thus moving to concede all Asia to Communism...
Thus the Dean's Office, because of its fear of merger of Harvard-Radcliffe student activities, has limited the students' own freedom of decision on the problem. Its pattern of action is identical to that shown by its reactions to the problem of post-war political tensions, bad debts, and public relations...
...Yard if it wished. Today the Yard is out of bounds for rallies, and considerable Dean's Office and Student Council red tape must be sliced through to hold a rally anywhere else on Harvard property. Part of the Dean's objection to use of the Yard comes from fear of disturbing classes, but this cannot be a serious objection to night time use for rallies...
...World. Last week, Michael Scott called again on the U.N.; this time he won a public hearing before the Assembly's Trusteeship Committee. The South African delegation refused to attend. But others among the 59 delegations listened carefully, read with deep concern a bulky document, In Face of Fear, which the speaker had compiled...
...essays prepared for the eyes of Western readers, he remained his adopted country's devoted partisan to the end. Loyally, he painted his adopted country as a peace-loving land menaced by the West. Wrote Hearn: "An evil dream comes oftentimes to those who love Japan: the fear that all her efforts are being directed, with desperate heroism, only to prepare the land for the sojourn of peoples older by centuries in commercial experience . . . that her admirable army and her heroic navy may be doomed to make their last sacrifices in hopeless contest against some combination of greedy states...