Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Inter-American Conference on Peace and Security, which was to have opened in Rio on Oct. 20. The State Department explanation: the U.S. could have no dealings with the Argentine militarists whom the U.S. had welcomed back in the Hemispheric fold only seven months ago. The Latin American fear: that the Good Neighbor policy of joint action was being scrapped...
Bennett fought hardest to protect the empire from unionism, yet when he lost he was the first to advise Old Henry to sign up. In his long role as guardian, squat, flint-hard, bow-tied Mr. Bennett (he never wore a four-in-hand for fear someone would use it to choke him) was shot at, beaten up and stoned (see cut). He took all this as part of his watchdog job, relaxed by painting in oils, never questioned anything which Mr. Ford wanted done. He saw no reason to question. Said he: "I believe in the things that...
...Cabinet meeting, Henry Wallace and others cited scientific opinion that the secret could not be kept, argued that the bomb be made available to the United Nations Organization. Said Britain's Sir Stafford Cripps: "The thing I fear is that as the months and years pass the story of Nagasaki and Hiroshima will fade into the background and that . . . this new power of destruction . . . will cease to have its compelling force upon our political actions...
...fertile Satara district of Bombay Presidency was gripped by fear. Bands of terrorists, who had proclaimed an underground patri sarka (government of broken feet) in opposition to the Raj, terrorized and looted for 14 months. In the villages, their "courts" executed eight suspected informers, medievally mutilated another 74. Last week 1,500 Bombay police had finally shattered the reign of dread, arrested one of its principal leaders...
...month rent, the Electronic Trap Co. of Rochester, N. Y. offers a highly scientific rat eradicator. Taking advantage of the fact that rats fear blind alleys and new paths, the electronic rat trap is a floorless, open-ended box placed over a favorite rat run. The rat, seeing nothing suspicious, thinks he can scoot straight through. But the instant he is inside the trap - bang! An electronic eye slams down two doors, one in front and one behind...