Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Many a Congressman doubted that the bill would ever pass, if for no other reason than that it meant more taxes. Among those who hoped they were right were 1) the bulk of physicians, who mortally hate & fear any more entanglement with government; 2) the many privately managed and non-profit associations for hospitalization and medical care which are rapidly spreading their health service over the country and financing it from employes' voluntary payroll deductions...
...other side of the floodlit, simply furnished courtroom sat Germany's fallen leaders. They had fallen far and hard. Only a short time ago, their words and deeds had brought fear to people from Murmansk to Lands End to Jamestown, N.Y. Now they were just an odd and seedy assortment of soldiers, rowdies, bureaucrats and bourgeoisie, who hardly looked important enough to have provoked the heavy wave of hatred, disgust and indignation which had swept them into the prisoners...
...agreement with Japan to attack the U.S. There were also endless transcripts of bloodcurdling dialogue between Hitler and the defendants. Sample: Hitler (to Göring)-"[We must] kill without pity or mercy all men, women and children of the Polish race or language. ... I have only one fear and that is that Chamberlain or another such dirty swine comes to me with a proposition or a change of mind. He will be thrown downstairs even if I must personally kick him in the belly. . . ." (In ecstasy, Göring jumps on table and dances a savage czardas...
...dearest of all hemispheric principles: non-intervention by any one nation or group of nations in the domestic affairs of any American country. Instead, he advocated joint intervention against any nation which violates "the elementary rights of man and of the citizens." The Uruguayans had good reason to fear violators of democratic rights. Across the Rio de la Plata, the hard-booted Argentine colonels tramped and threatened...
...Lost Weekend (Paramount) follows its dipsomaniac hero to the hangover end of a five-day drunk. A naturalistic horror picture, it is a nightmarish look at the life of a specialized urban type: the fear-paralyzed writer turned alcoholic. In some respects, the picture is a better temperance tract than Charles Jackson's best-selling novel from which it was adapted...