Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...foreign military-aid program. It was the kind of routine, uninspired address that Speechwriter Clark Clifford can turn out in his sleep, designed to satisfy its hearers without making headlines. Back in Washington, the President signed the proclamation of the Atlantic pact, made another short speech: "No nation need fear the results of our cooperation ... On the contrary . . ." These functions he performed with earnest punctilio...
Limiting weight, says Dr. King, is urged "with sweeping but poorly documented claims" that it lessens the dangers of miscarriage, stillbirths and malformations. This argument, he reports, can cause hysterical fear in some impressionable women...
...King contends that when a pregnant woman eats more than she actually needs it is because of insecurity-worry about her health, her child's health, her husband's fidelity, or fear that pregnancy will leave her less attractive. At such times, "a big chocolate fudge sundae carries her back to the carefree days of her childhood...
...kinds of worries" were in the minds of the refugees, reported the Communist Liberation Daily. "Some even thought the government was trying to chase them away, with the result that they didn't dare accept the flour given to them as relief after the [recent] typhoon, for fear of being obliged to leave Shanghai." To soothe them, a Red directive called for propaganda and education, promised a magnanimous attitude toward refugee landowners if they would "repent of their mistakes and engage in production...
...humiliating for the Holy See if those governments delayed or refused exit permits, as they did to Mindszenty, even though it is not absolutely necessary for a newly created cardinal to be present at the consistory." In the particular case of Prague's Archbishop Beran, some Catholic authorities fear that the Communist government would consider his elevation a provocative act, and retaliate by attacking...