Word: fears
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...mistake to imagine, however, that the British people in any way fear the Labor Party which now contains some of the best brains in Britain. Those who are violently opposed to the policies for which Labor stands are only too anxious that the Party should be called to power in order that their policies can be exposed as fallacious and the whole Labor movement condemned. More moderate people among the Conservatives and Liberals believe that it is only by letting the Laborites have power that the radical tendencies of the Party can be cured...
There was some fear in Russia, whose dramatists are equal to any in the world, that the Soviet authorities in Moscow would suppress public performances of Alexis Tolstoy's play The Golden Book of Love, a light comedy which features Catherine the Great. It was felt that the Empress, being at the head of a Tsarist State, would be too much for the Bolsheviki...
...fear that I shall have to modify my rather too vigorous remarks on Mr. Edsall's excellent simile of the violin and the saw. If you play your violin with a saw, your violin will not be completely spoiled. Its strings may be broken; but they are easily replaced, and your violin may even be improved by the process. But it will never be exactly the same as it was before. EDWARD SCHOUTEN ROBINSON...
...potency for hostile propaganda, and would seriously threaten our national safety, recognition would be manifestly out of the question. But the calm way in which the public has accepted the Moscow dispatches, and applied salt to the tales of revolution and conspiracy proves that there is no real fear. It proves, on the contrary, that America regards Russia with interest but certainly without much apprehension. And in view of this favorable attitude, the policy of far-sighted statesmanship,--if not of ordinary, average common-sense--would be recognition...
...born of the Virgin Mary . . .", and then turning directly round by denying the Virgin Birth? I can think of nothing to call such action but plain lying and hypocrisy. If anyone can find honesty and consistency in it, I should be glad to see his reasoning--but I fear it will have to be a mass of quibbles...