Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Angels Who Drink Too Much Sirs: A number of letters and reports indicting the behavior of American troops in occupied countries-not a few of them signed by chivalric G.I.s-have been published in your periodical, without fear or favor. It would be unfair to deny the stand to a witness for the defense...
...Harry Truman's public declaration of war last week, the Congress scarcely batted an eye. Senators and Representatives, home for the holidays, listened to their radios without visible fear or anger, felt little impulse either to rush into battle or go hide in the hills...
Tunnel of Fear. Little by little, top Nazi leaders learned to fear Martin Bormann. He had been made chief of the inner Gestapo that policed top Nazis. Reich Marshal Goring blocked up the tunnel that led from Bormann's Berchtesgaden house...
...since youth, and took regular slugs of brandy to quiet his nerves. In a cheerful, half-drunk state, he commanded a tank for two months. ¶ A soldier who had suffered tantrums as a child hardened up when his brother was killed at his side. Desire for revenge replaced fear, and he lasted until six tanks were shot from under...
...citizen was killed in them. As for banditry, a U.S. ambassador to Mexico's reply to a worried prospective U.S. visitor was illuminating: "Completely safe [to come to Mexico] if you don't stop in Chicago." Common precautions against dysentery would circumvent "tourist tummy," but a hypersensitive fear of native foodstuffs ("Are the oranges safe?") would get only a sardonic answer ("No, you'd better boil them...