Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...trust us plain people enough. Can it be we want to be more vigilant, more self-sacrificing, than they dare ask? Do they mistake groans and grumbles from a soft and noisy minority for a real revolt of the people against rationing and wartime controls? What do they fear? Tumbrils...
...them got bawled out on occasion; all of them learned to fear the crooked forefinger Henry Stimson shook at them when he was mad. All down the military line, the old Secretary demanded performance and got it. Before he was through, it was the greatest Army on earth, and as he always knew it would...
...Fear is too common a human failing for us to need invoke it as an aid to any cause, however good. The great moments in human history are records of collective or individual courage; the leaders of a free people rightly rely on the courage of each and every citizen, not only in times of war but in the days of peace...
...Fear, panic, foolish short-sighted action--thus runs the well-known sequence of words describing the road of human folly. The reserve pattern--courage, cold examination, intelligent farsighted action--is admittedly all too rare, but is always available as an alternative even for the sons of Adam. Listen for the emotional overtones in a group discussion. Whether they portray fear or proclaim courage will usually provide the key to the subsequent course of a bit of human drama...
Uomo Qualunque. Many millions of Italians regard the country's tangled politics and its faction-shaded parties (six are represented in the Government) with disgust and fear. Symptomatically, Italy's most widely read topical weekly is Rome's three-lire Uomo Qualunque (Common Man or Man-in-the-Street). Its founder and editor: Guglielmo Giannini, a theatrical producer, never a politician...