Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...moments Wednesday night, Henry Wallace was all things to all men. As he stood, waiting for the prolonged applause that greeted him to subside, Mr. Wallace was a source of curiosity, hope, and fear to his 7,000 listeners, who were as yet unaware of the contents of his speech.. Even when his address was over many in the audience must still have been uncertain of their evaluation of this man whom one Harvard professor has called "the most profound social thinker in America," this man who has held high office and yet does not hesitate to criticize these...
...Instead of the great leadership demanded to guide the world to peace, it has legislated in prejudice, hysteria and fear. It has failed to meet the urgent needs of relief and rehabilitation overseas...
...This fear may seem in one sense justified. But in another sense it is an effort to cover up, by political action, the weakness of Protestantism in the field of religion itself. The anarchy of Protestantism, its lack of spiritual discipline, its ridiculous tensions between . . . versions of Protestantism ... its half-secular sentimentalities, all these weaknesses are more responsible for its sense of insecurity than anything that Catholicism may do politically...
...with a light tail wind, he reached 403 m.p.h. After officials juggled the figures around for a few minutes, Cobb's record went on the books as 394.196 m.p.h. A reporter asked him whether he had found the high speed frightening. "It's not a matter of fear," said girt John Cobb. "It's a matter of hanging...
...Polio specialists have learned that psychotherapy is as important as physical care: toughest hazard in polio treatment is the patient's panicky fear of the disease...