Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...this sit a few key men in the Occupation. Everyone wonders when they are going to leave. The Austrians don't want them, yet fear the Russians if the Americans depart. They wonder if American food with them. But Austria has found ways before, so perhaps the situation is not so serious as it seems...
There is even a sudden and tragic suicide during the course of the evening which provides a lively and well-acted interlude to the comedy. The victim is a widely romantic Goethe-reader whom, I fear, Mr. Behrman will never translate from the Gallic...
...approach of the Chinese Communists across the border has given the Reds visions of decisive victory, but it has also aggravated a growing rift between the hard Communist core of leaders around Ho, who are ready to accept Mao Tse-tung's leadership, and the rank & file, who fear China and want Viet Nam for the Viet Namese. One French general told me: "For two years I had to keep statistics of desertions to the Communists. For the last two months my statistics are Communist desertions...
...Personally, I don't believe there is any chance of a world war in the near future. The only thing I am afraid of is the psychology of blind fear which is gripping people all over the world...
...Pope also had a word for those who fear that analgesia in childbirth is inconsistent with the biblical "In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children." Painkilling in labor, said the Pontiff, is an honest, moral endeavor, "so long as no danger ... results for either mother or infant, and so long as the tender sentiments of parenthood are neither diminished nor destroyed...