Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...happened. The Chimara, a onetime German hospital ship, shuddered and stopped as an explosion ripped away her port bow. Her engine-room belched clouds of steam and flames. Passengers lurched through dark corridors to the decks. Soon they were a tight-packed mass of cursing, fear-crazed people, fighting to get into the ship's eight lifeboats...
...Fear & Terrorism. The first dramatic moment of the dramatic session came when Matteo Matteotti, 25, son of Italy's famous anti-Fascist martyr (TIME, Aug. 7, 1944), moved to the speaker's microphone. His wide mouth and slightly jutting jaw firmly set, his deep-set eyes solemn and stern, young Matteotti charged Nenni's party leadership with spreading "fear and terrorism," and denounced the Congress as illegal. The delegates rose and screamed: "Degenerate son!" But Matteotti doggedly finished his job, handed the presiding officer what he called documentation proving Nenni's terroristic methods, and calmly walked...
...expectation of the U.S.: that it will come to apply itself to "the adjustment of certain inequitable decisions of the peacemakers." His fear: that a division of Germany into two zones (economically or politically) would mean the division of Europe into two hostile camps. His recommendation: "What we need is a concert of powers and not a balance of power. Not two Europes under non-European guidance, but one Europe belonging to Europeans...
Readers who fear a mere hashing-over of the better-known voyages will be pleasantly surprised; for in addition to giving these masterpieces their proud place ("the supreme discovery," says Stefansson, ". . . is the finding of a continent"), Stefansson has included such little-known explorations as those of the Chinese on the fringes of North America in the 5th Century A.D. and the roamings of Polynesian boatmen...
...students have wandered off into the darkness never to return. Although the University authorities have tried to keep this horrible news from the student body, the tale has spread like wildfire. The magnitude of its effect can hardly be underestimated. Erstwhile socialites are reluctant to leave their rooms for fear of perishing in the night, and those hardy spirits venturing forth after dark take precaution to equip themselves with the latest survival gear and leave instructions for their rescue by the Cambridge Troop of St. Bernard dogs...