Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...elbow, took a hasty gulp, then drove home his point with an additional turn of Ciceronian rhetoric. As in all State of the Union messages to Congress, President Roosevelt surveyed the world at large, assaying U. S. international relations. Naming no names, the man who Republicans pretend to fear may become a U. S. dictator, said some hard, blunt things about dictatorships which made Italy and Germany wince (see p. 16). Excerpts...
...steal the livery of great national constitutional ideals to serve discredited special interests. As guardians and trustees for great groups of individual stockholders, they wrongfully seek to carry the property and the interests entrusted to them into the arena of partisan politics. . . . "They engage in vast propaganda to spread fear and discord among the people-they would 'gang up' against the people's liberties...
...hands of political puppets of an economic autocracy such power would provide shackles for the liberties of the people. Give them their way and they will take the course of every autocracy of the past-power for themselves, enslavement for the public. "Their weapon is the weapon of fear. I have said, 'The only thing we have to fear is fear itself,' and that is as true today as it was in 1933. But such fear as they instill today is not natural fear, normal fear; it is a synthetic, manufactured, poisonous fear that is being spread subtly...
...shook the prestige of Premier Laval of France. . . . Rumors current in European diplomatic quarters for several weeks that Leopold was endeavoring to bridge Anglo-Italian differences are based upon fact." Two days before, Paris Correspondent Edmond Taylor of the Chicago Tribune went off the same deep end. In Geneva fear of another "Deal" concocted behind the League's back caused Leaguophile correspondents to raise loud alarms. Their spokeswoman, Mme Geneviéve Tabouis, declared that in her opinion Belgium's King, who conferred with Britain's King-Emperor last week, has two main and immediate objects...
Carie had militant Protestantism in her blood. Her grandparents had emigrated to the U. S. from Holland for conscience's sake, settled in West Virginia to bring up their progeny in the fear of the Lord.Carie grew up to be pretty and proper, but she had a profound fire in her that knew the local youth for the chaff they were. At an impressionable age she met and married a zealous young preacher, for the bad reason that they both felt called to be missionaries. Hand in hand they went through the wood-to China. Here Carie began...