Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...withstood a Hungarian siege while Hungarian and Slovak planes battled overhead. During one fight, in which 17 planes were engaged, four Hungarian and two Slovak planes were reported shot down and four other Slovak planes made forced landings. Two Slovak planes were still missing. Bratislava residents were tense with fear that their city would be bombarded, though Slovaks generally believe that this is unlikely since Germany probably would consider it a cause...
Knowing the feeling of the Crimson on the elections questions, I thought that it would welcome a referendum, to settle the problem according to the wishes of the class itself. Now, I am tempted to wonder whether the Crimson's opposition to the referendum was not due to a fear--how wellfounded I don't know--that too few Freshmen really agree with the Crimson. James Tobin '39, Member of the Student Council...
Greatest impersonation of the late Basso Feodor Chaliapin was the fear-racked 17th-Century Tsar in Moussorgsky's Boris Godounov. In 1908, Chaliapin was the first man to sing Boris outside of Russia, in 1929 the last to sing it at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House. Other bassos -notably the Metropolitan's Adamo Didur, the Chicago Opera's Vanni Marcoux-donned the wig and beard of Boris, but they were haunted by the Chaliapin performance, just as in the opera the Tsar is haunted in his biggest scenes by the wraith of the young heir...
That Germany knows well that the stiffness of the British and French backbone is inverse to British fear of Nazi might was underlined last week by Air Marshal Hermann Wilhelm Goring, Nazi No. 2. A World War ace himself, Marshal Goring boasted that if the September crisis had resulted in a war, "a hell, an inferno would have been waiting for the enemy, a quick blow and his complete destruction." Continued Marshal Goring...
...other press ever matched the Hearst press for flamboyance, perversity and incitement of mass hysteria. Hearst never believed in anything much, not even Hearst, and his appeal was not to men's minds but to those infantile emotions which he never conquered in himself: arrogance, hatred, frustration, fear. But while Hearst dragged his readers vicariously through every depravity from jingoism to sex murder, he also helped to perpetuate a nation's songs, its humor and its heroes...