Word: fears
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chamberlain has saved the ruling classes at the expense of the toiling masses. . . . France has ceased to be a great power." In France, the General Confederation of Labor, representing some 3.000,000 trade unionists, announced its "acceptance of the Munich accords for suspending the course to war." but expressed fear that "these accords, limited to some powers, may create a preface to the Constitution of a Four-Power-Pact condemned by public opinion of all democratic countries'' (see p. 19). Paris-Soir, with a circulation of 1,800.000, launched a popular subscription campaign to buy Fisherman Chamberlain...
...flooded; there is no food, no water, no light. The Chinese crew is huddled in a corner like a half-dead pile of fish. The officers, although still on their feet, are as helpless as the Chinese, give off just as sharp an odor of ammonia-the smell of fear. Only two of them are actually reduced to green-faced semiconsciousness but by the end of the third day all of them have queer hallucinations-the pleasantest are those of a young junior officer who, as he pours oil through the aft latrine, chatters away to a naked debutante...
...There is fear among some of its proponents that the Cambridge councilmen may spike the plan by not having a quorum at tonight's meeting, which would mean that the petition could not be sent to the Baliot Commission in time. The petition was not eligible for consideration before tonight's meeting since it had to be filed for 45 days previously...
...only one among a host of many sizes and dimensions of other worlds"-are less stressed in Zaca Venture than in his previous books. And although his bright journalistic style permits little professional dullness, he sometimes drops offhandedly the names of fish so little-known that readers may fear he is pulling their legs...
...York World's Fair site, not to be opened for 5,000 years, collected letters to posterity written by Nobel Prize-winners Albert Einstein, Robert Andrews Millikan, Thomas Mann-and by Grover Aloysius Whalen (Fair Manager). Einstein: ". . . Anyone who thinks about the future must live in fear and terror." Mann: "Among you, too, the spirit will fare badly-it should never fare too well on this earth, otherwise men would need it no longer." Whalen: "We were thinking of you in the World of Tomorrow...