Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hope & Fear. Through gall and goad, the ricksha man has clung to his calling. Hong owners exploit him ("They are blackhearted," he complains-in Shanghai, before last week's strike, they upped their daily rentals from 60? to $2.60), moneylenders gouge him, racketeers batten on him. Yet, in 1918 in Shanghai, he took up bamboo sticks and iron bars to destroy the alien trolleys that menaced his means of meager livelihood-which, after all, is better than that of millions of his fellows...
...Shanghai it claims 10,000 out of 60,000 pullers. Its membership fee is 5?; its boss is an oratorical, brown-gowned Kuomintang man named Chang. It was Chang's union which drew up and sent to the Government a petition voicing the ricksha men's fear and doubt over the plan to abolish rickshas...
March 4, 1933. A new man, untried but confident, asserted in a surprisingly high-pitched voice to a bewildered and frightened nation: ". . . the only thing we have to fear is fear itself...
...modern miracles. The impatient perfectionist, continually frustrated by examples of power politics, cannot long avoid cynicism. He counts for naught the progress made when the family of nations agreed to bring their haggling within the confines of the council chamber. Exhorting the deadliness of the atomic bomb, he summons fear to promote his crusade for "real" world government...
Plagued by the multiple complaints of a slowly convalescing world, retarded in attending to long run solution of its needs, partially paralyzed by hypnotic fear of the atomic bomb, buffeted by the impatience of the perfectionist and the realist alike, the United Nations has no certainty of a long and useful life. The people of the world would do well to renew the faith expressed by President Roosevelt just before his death. "The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our fears of today...