Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...need not be too literal. There's nothing to fear from witches. But what about witch-burners? They are piling up the faggots. What are we, who abominate the obscene, going to do about the witch-burners...
Furthermore, the Soviets are still apprehensive of the influence of imperialists in England and America as is evidenced by Molotov's denunciation of Churchill and Baruch as prophets of aggression. Perhaps it is this same justifiable fear which has, at least partially, motivated Molotov's plea for international disarmament. Regardless of the reasons for this first Russian proposal for disarmament since the one made by Maxim Litvinoff before the League of Nations in 1927, if it is made seriously and in good faith, it can do more than anything else to convince the world of Russia's peaceful intentions...
...week's end, meat prices had sagged a little (one Manhattan butcher shop sold sirloin for 68? a pound); and buyer resistance was up to its postwar peak. The resistance was partly fear, partly doubt, and partly an out-&-out inability to pay the price. But more than that, people were beginning to feel like unmitigated suckers...
...mixture of fear, frustration and anger was expressed in many ways. In Cleveland, U.A.W.'s Walter Reuther announced that contracts covering 400,000 of his autoworkers would be reopened promptly-a statement that increased the possibility of a new wage scrimmage. Some people trembled to think what would happen if federal rent controls were dropped. And some were beginning to shift uneasily at the prospect that the booming U.S. was in for a recession, if not a bust (see BUSINESS...
...traveling around the world on a history scholarship. He joined the Chinese in their heroic retreat to the mountains, taking a job in their Ministry of Information. Within a few months he left the Ministry, became a TIME correspondent for the rest of the war in China. Pain without Fear. He suffered dysentery and malaria. Once all his possessions were destroyed by bombs. Occasionally he was called home for a few months, but he was always eager to return to China. One of his returns was made on a Dutch ship loaded with dynamite, which sailed unescorted across the Pacific...