Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...years after the victory that was to have brought freedom from fear and want, men were as afraid of each other as ever, and most were in want. Endlessly branching plans for the world's regeneration were stiff with bureaucratic blight. To find postwar hopes alive with real sap, the world had to look in odd places-for instance, Hiroshima...
...world political situation has not improved. ... [But] I am convinced that no responsible statesman in any country can, or does, contemplate the prospect of war." For the immediate future Lie was probably right; but Lake Success was haunted by the fear that a fateful day would come when Andrei Gromyko, the Neanderthal diplomat, would hunch his shoulders and follow his bulbous nose out of a door for the last time...
...night, imagining some fear...
...public debate" had become a euphemism. He doubted that many readers tried or even wanted to hear all sides of an issue. He asked: "How many editors . . . cite each other to open debate; what Hearst has flung down the gauntlet to what New York Times-or vice versa? . . . I fear it is simply not the case that in the profuse and unordered public expression of today the best views tend to prevail...
...dynamic and aggressive is the community-church movement that some conservative clerics fear that Burkhart and his colleagues are trying to form a separate denomination. Church Builder Burkhart replies that he would be the first to advocate disbanding the community-church groups when Protestantism as a whole shows itself ready to accept the larger objectives which are its challenge. Says he: "The community church is not the final word. The final word is for Protestant organization and union; and until that time comes, the community church will be the mighty groundswell movement for union...