Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...when Carl Mydans first walked through the streets of Tokyo he must have thought many times of the 21 months of "constant, oozing fear" he and his wife Shelley spent as prisoners of the Japs after their capture in Manila...
Clean Sheets. Many who had fought the Japs went ashore tense with the fear of treachery or the expectation of sullen resentment. But it was like a veteran's dream of victory...
...when they turned their eyes on Washington that the Board rushed in where angels might fear to tread and coolly named Gerow, Marshall and Hull as negligent...
...Fear, Enmity. Children laughed and waved. Their parents closed their doors or hid in the corrugated iron shacks that sheltered the bombed-out. Nubile Japanese girls scampered for cover as U.S. troops approached. And civilians in the streets of Tokyo-the men wearing random bits of army uniform, the women in baggy dark trousers and white blouses-stared at the invaders with unconcealed hostility...
...Patriots. The Cairo Declaration, to which the U.S., Britain, China and Russia have subscribed, pledges a "free and independent . . . Korea . . . in due course." Koreans fear that "due course" means a period of international tutelage. They appeal to their history as proof of their right to administer their own affairs...