Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Problems of a transient nature between the two countries can be solved successfully by wise statesmanship. We need fear nothing from these situations. However violent the propaganda which may arise, the policy of my Government will be consistently for permanent peace and lasting friendship with no idea, no dream, of war with America...
...spider in Little Miss Muffitt and the lupine ancestress in Little Red Riding Hood breed fear-complexes...
...When the bough breaks, the cradle will fall"-no wonder that it [a baby] awoke in the night and cried. . . . Nursy or mother might have thought baby had a stomach ache and given it peppermint tea, but we know that it was fear that awakened1 baby, and only love destroys fear. . . . What a stretch of the imagination-asking a child to believe that a heavy mooley cow could jump over the moon! Think of a kitty playing a fiddle and then try to convince the child that a dish could run away with a spoon. . . . Thus the children...
...very hour of its going, Memorial Hall is to be a source of worry to the University, not as heretofore, because of lack of patronage, but because of the unfamiliar fear that over-popularity will swamp its resources...
...great storm arose. Heaven tipped crazily, the long seas towered and swept by. Huddled below decks, the faculty of Novorossiisk University and their families cried out prayers as they were dashed back and forth across the saloon. Ashore there was famine; here were rocks ahead and stark fear on the faces of the crew...