Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...spirit of "national sacrifice" this step was taken (TIME, Nov. 8, 1926). Last week, up to the very moment of Premier van Zeeland's announcement, the 25-year pledge in which King Albert participated was cited reassuringly as a reason why Belgians need not fear devaluation under King Leopold. When the belga finally slid off gold, Flemish peasants, thriftiest in the world, demonstrated fiercely in their villages against "Our French King...
...dole in one form or another. They cost State and Federal Governments $180.000.000 a month. And they are producing a quarter of a million children a year. Relief administrators want to use scientific birth control to constrain that impoverished sixth of the population but have done nothing openly for fear of the Roman Catholic Church...
...went on had only one bathroom, but her cabin was filled with flowers. At her first sight of Greenland's icy mountains Mrs. Owen found herself "struggling with the impulse toward tears." Looking hard at the icebergs gave her strength to face things: "I know I shall fear neither death nor living so much when I know that this great beauty of mountain and sky and sea lies wrapped in eternal silence through unbroken spans of years-that across its dreaming face will be drawn veils of color, rose at dawn, gold at midday, blue at twilight...
...able to comprehend the technical skill, the shrewd relation of form to material that these savage artists used. Their work was not idly decorative but deeply purposeful. They were making religious symbols just as earnestly as the romanesque stone carvers of the 9th Century in Europe. Fear of angry gods and strong enemies was their dominant emotion as they fashioned their fetishes to win divine favor and victory on the battlefield. Wrote famed Critic Sheldon Cheney of this African...
Declared President Roosevelt in his special message to Congress: "No honest enterpriser need fear that because of the passage of such a measure he will be unfairly treated. He would be asked to do no more than he now holds himself out to do. It would merely make certain that those who are less scrupulous than I know most of our producers to be, cannot force their more honest competitors into dishonorable ways...