Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Byrnes added bravely: "There is no reason to fear an open and vigorous contest between our conception of democracy and other political faiths. The voice of democracy is as thrilling today as it was yesterday...
Said one Department member: "I fear that resumption of such (tutorial) instruction after a period of suspension would be very difficult and on the whole improbable...
...consideration." From the Gettysburg Address: the Government's "authority . . . is derived from the people," its "powers are exercised by representatives of the people," its "benefits are enjoyed by the people." From the Atlantic Charter: "We recognize . . . that all peoples have the right to live in peace, free from fear and want...
...poultry, counters were bare. Colonel ter Meulen could secure no servants for his headquarters. A dance was scheduled for a U.S. visitor in a village temple; no natives came. Nationalist agitators who had hopped over from Java had not succeeded in converting the Balinese into fire-eating revolutionaries. But fear of the Pemoeda (Javanese extremist Youth Movement) kept the peaceable Balinese from cooperating with the white...
...Robert P. ("Pepper") Martin, usually willing to lean over backwards to give the Soviets a break, angrily reported a "studied and cynical 'freeze' against correspondents, who received treatment usually accorded spies or nationals of an unfriendly nation. . . . This correspondent walked through city streets after dark with chill fear gripping his stomach when challenges sounded...