Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these common men of the German Navy a beaten lot, I found arrogance and firm belief in Nazi doctrine. Peculiarly, Goring was referred to as "that bastard." In the midst of my enlightenment a Kraut C.P.O. stuck his neck through the watertight door intoning in guttural Low German the fear that I was a reporter-"Seid still!" Why do we continue to fail so miserably? (NAVY ENSIGN'S NAME WITHHELD) Philadelphia
...fear had been sharpened anew last week by such varied signs of Russian aggressiveness as her pressure on Iran, and Manchuria (see FOREIGN NEWS), her continued use of Communists in other countries for Russian ends, and a strongly documented report from Vienna by New York Timesman John MacCormac on Russian tactics that had killed any early hope of restoring Austria's independence...
...stone slab atop the church has long been pointed out by drivers of sightseeing buses as the tomb of a rich parishioner who had a mortal fear of worms. Actually it is only an ornament...
Gamma Rays. In both Hiroshima and Nagasaki a few modern buildings of heavy reinforced concrete stood up through the clean-swept desolation. Some military conservatives have pointed to them as proof that only flimsily built Japanese cities need fear atomic bombs...
...adolescent girl who worshiped him as if he were King. She develops David's crookedly loyal captain Joab into a conscienceless foil for her almost equally sinful but conscience-torn hero; but she explains David's lifelong forbearance towards Joab only by the phrase, "a nameless fear." Her examinations of religious and mystical experience are sometimes emotionally convincing, but so loosely generalized that the reader nods at, without believing or suffering, David's intuitions of "other Jahvehs"-one of love, for example, or one who is blind and heartless...