Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...difficult as God Almighty's gymnastic paraphernalia provided for the development of human beings. . . . People who believe in crime by force should get their necks broken, or we should put them on the gridiron and burn them up. You bet your life! That puts the fear of God in their hearts. Then if you've got something left over worth salvaging, give them parole...
...Strong Men. England's biggest fear is that London will be crippled by a sudden stroke from the sky. Recently Londoners have taken to rushing to their windows whenever airplanes drone overhead, as they used to when planes were a novelty. In Nos. 10 and 11 Downing Street and in Whitehall, this psychosis has taken the form of a question: Who will govern Britain if we are blown to Blarney? The Government's first answer to it was to divide all Britain into twelve administrative sections,* each of which would operate as an independent country...
...realize I am sure that throughout the world hundreds of millions of human beings are living today in constant fear of a new war or even a series of wars...
...existence of this fear ... is of definite concern to the people of the United States. . . . Any major war . . . must bear heavily on them during its continuance and also for generations to come...
...orator, scarcely a figure calculated to arouse much personal enthusiasm. Herr Himmler's primary function in Naziland has so far been to be neither seen nor heard but to be felt. The housewife who puts quilted covers over her telephone for fear the Gestapo can listen in on household conversations even when the receiver catch is down has felt Herr Himmler's not-too-remote presence. The German who uses prearranged codes in letters to his relatives in or out of the country decidedly feels Policeman Himmler's existence. The discontented merchant, the dissident Party member...