Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plays his wife, never seem able enough to reach the necessary pitch of excitement. Lederer's villainy is often unconvincingly sinister, while Miss Shields, in the difficult role of a sweet young thing who is preyed upon and is nearly driven to distraction, rarely reaches the emotional heights of fear which could lend a heightened note of terror to the play...
...British fear that further large-scale Jewish immigration may cause a major Arab outbreak in the Middle East endangering Britain's oil supply and its road to the Far East. And if the British washed their hands of the Arab world, the U.S. would likely have to step into their shoes to keep the peace, to keep Russia out and to protect its own essential Arabian oil interests...
...hold that the stick is likely to be more effective than the carrot. It may be true that one reason why people will not work hard is that they can buy so little with their wages. But it is much more true that they will not work because the fear of the sack [of being fired] has vanished from the land, and because the Bankruptcy Court is a depressed area...
...real margin, after taxation, that counts. ... It will only lead to disaster to pretend that ordinary human beings are angels or philosophers (of either the Marxist or the Spencerian professions). . . . Even in the 20th Century, most of them are more like donkeys driven by desire for gain or fear of hunger...
...speaking as one journalist to another ... as long as they [the Russians] must pretend to be more perfect than men can ever be, and must hold themselves aloof, obscure and mysterious, the timid may fear them, but the shrewd common sense of mankind and its instinct of liberty will not permit men to trust them, to like them, or to follow them...