Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...step, often bitter, he remained the beau ideal of the Senate. He had no fear of political consequences; in later years he did not even campaign for office. There was dignity and gallantry about the homely little man. Sometimes, carried away by lost causes, he attacked his adversaries physically. Once he plunged at Huey Long -because the Kingfish had taken the liberty of calling him by his first name...
Undergraduates' thinking developed markedly from that June day in 1940 when a Crimson editorial voiced their fear "that under the guise of preparedness (we) will be catapulted into a futile and devastating foreign war while our own democracy crashes in ruins," to the bewildering 8th of December, 1941 when they decided, "we can see that it is our job to fight, and we are not only willing but eager to accept our task." Realistic, constructive thinking reached its summit when in early 1943 a poll of student opinion indicated that ninety-six percent favored "some sort of world council...
...suspicion of Moscow control will not down, nor will the French fear of a Communist police state on the Russian model. In vain (to date) Thorez has cried: "Different countries, different methods...
Then Communists flooded toward the square by the thousands, chanting the national anthem like a samba. Their banners said: "We want bread," "We are for democracy," "Break with Spain." At the square they met the mounted police who, faces tight with fear, forced them back. Then, reported Correspondent Newton, "a man mounted on others' shoulders told the crowd, 'They cannot stop the meeting. This is still a democracy...
...Oedipus, Laurence Olivier was extremely fine. He was first kingly and high-mettled, of unshakable purpose and swift anger. Then, twisting and turning between confidence and fear, he became both less and larger, a tragic figure of an early world, uttering at the climax two primitive animal howls that no one who heard them will ever forget...