Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This is no undertaking to mullet the Dining Hall System. The money turned over to Harvard food Relief will be an indirect contribution from University students in response to President Truman's appeal. On the other hand, no one need fear that Lehman Hall is going to make a profit at his expense. Any funds saved above the specified amount will be turned over to the Committee after a general accounting in June...
With three horses, a 14-in. plough, an ingrained fear of debt, and an ingrained faith in God, old Christopher's son Charles began to break the tough prairie sod for his well-to-do neighbors. In time he became such an artist with the plough that he earned as much as $1 an acre. When not ploughing, Charles Kuester worked out for $15 a month in summer, for his board & keep in the stiff Iowa winters. Before he had saved enough to buy land, he married. By the time Gus, his seventh child, was born (1888), Charles...
...Communists paid no heed, held out implacably for government by parties in an all-powerful Parliament. Their most incisive, ironic orator was tubby Party Secretary Jacques Duclos, who cried: "Perhaps some fear that the first party of France [i.e., the Communist, which has about 25% of the voters] may choose the premier...
...reliability of his scanty sources, most of them boy hood friends and later enemies of Stalin, whose comments suggest William Wordsworth's definition of lyric poetry: strong emotion recollected in tranquillity (usually in jail or exile). He also makes devastating use of the official encomiums* written (usually in fear of jail or exile) after Stalin became powerful. The happy paucity of source materials enables Trotsky to draw the same kind of brilliant character surmises, inferences and conclusions that he improvised (in his History of the Russian Revolution) from some scraps of Czar Nicholas II's journal. From...
...remembers the long stretch before he was drafted when he worked the night shift in a defense plant and he and Susan saw each other only on their way to & from their jobs. And he remembers Susan's constant desire for a child, and his own constant fear of it, so long as they were so desperately hard up and insecure...