Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...support could be given equitably to all religious groups. . . . [The] principle of 'separation of church and state' . . . goes no further than the prohibition of the establishment of one religion and the suppression of others. . . . The [effort] to make the separation . . . absolute ... is a reflection ... of the Protestant fear of Catholicism...
...agnostics, with no reliance on the supernatural to support them, he suggests reference to the theory of Probabilities. Instead of becoming paralyzed by the fear of a coming war, they should ponder the prospect that there is "just as good a chance that we will see the beginning of an effective world government in the next ten years us that we shall witness the total obliteration of the heavily industrialized nations...
...crazily between 200 and 800 feet. The plane was bobbing too fast for the instrument to keep up. . . . I tried to swallow but couldn't. . . . My legs were numb from the hips down, partly from the pressure of the safety belt cutting into my belly, but mostly from fear...
...maneuver was also a political power-play. It knocked the wind out of the six-month-old Government of President Enrique Hertzog. A fragile coalition of pro-mine-owner Conservatives and the Marxist Left Revolutionary Party (P.I.R.), it had held together only because of common fear that the supporters of the late Dictator-President Villarroel, who wound up his career dangling from a lamppost (TIME, July 29, 1946), might stage a comeback...
Undaunted at the absence of his old school tie, lost by a rival spot removery, the Plympton Street valet master appeared to have stepped from an authoritative, if slightly dog eared, page of Esquire. "Never fear," said Ben, "We will emerge from the New Haven vendetta by taking Yale to the Valeterias...