Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Uneasy Secret. So priceless a possession was Magic that the U.S. high command lived in constant fear that the Japs would discover the secret, change their code machinery, force U.S. cryptographers to start all over again...
...mended his ways. He had. He went to work on a farm, married, fathered three handsome children. He became a leader in church and school affairs, never touched liquor, always paid his bills. He told his wife of his past, and she stuck by him. But his fear of arrest never left him. Two years ago, he moved to Atlanta, where he went to work as a carpenter...
Most of Beach Red describes the painful advance of a four-man reconaissance patrol toward the Japanese lines, their fear, their comradeship, their gallantry, their courage, and the thoughts that stream through the mind of the narrator (the only remaining member of the patrol) as he himself lies wounded...
...there, if I were you. It's plain foolishness. The Nips are going to open up with everything they've got to impart." Writes Sherrod: "I looked down into the faces of the men in the boat, and I saw written on them the same fear that gripped at my guts. I knew these men could not stay on the PC, where it would be warm, and there would be coffee, and there would not be much danger. They had to go in. When I looked at these faces and realized these things, I knew I could...
...national sovereignty or abolition of big-power vetoes, reiterated Russian belief that the future of UNO depends on "unanimity of the great powers in passing on the most important resolutions." Pravda, however, displayed no doubt of essential Big Three collaboration. Neither did Harry Truman. Asked if he shared the fear that Russian failure to cooperate would lead to war, the President unhesitatingly said he did not think so, added that he would discuss the matter more fully later...