Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...passage; distraught women; doctors and lawyers who had lost their practices; men who had been in concentration camps. There were 500 women on board. There was Max Loewe, a lawyer, with his wife and two children. There were 150 other children, 106 of them under ten. In the strange, fear-ridden, hope-ridden atmosphere of refugee ships, compounded of anxiety, relief, tension, they waited, living until their voyage's end under the terrible shadow of the red & black swastika ensign that flew from the stern...
...only reason that so much of the world's hard-earned wealth is poured down an uneconomic rathole is that men expect and fear the coming of a Second World War. That expectation and fear is the greatest political force in the world today. Horror of the war itself makes mankind recoil towards peace, but the probable nature of the war and the fear of its outcome drive men to prepare...
...City Health Commissioner, was reassuring: "In the years 1937 and 1938 the incidence of the disease was very low and this year, up to the present time, it is even lower. No one can predict the future of poliomyelitis accurately, but based on our present knowledge, no one need fear infantile paralysis in New York City this year...
From Perryville, Teacher Albert D. Johnson radioed: "The eruptions have put tremendous fear in the natives. They spend most of the 24 hours sitting outside dugouts keeping eyes on the mountain of fire. Tomorrow there will be only myself and wife in the village...
...Spokane, a tarantula crawled over Grocer James Wilson's little finger. Because James Wilson had a horror of tarantulas, an exaggerated fear of their venom, he seized a butcher's cleaver, cropped off his finger...