Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...seem to overlook: 1) Not one in ten soldiers ever sees a foxhole. 2) Damn few "give" their lives. Except in that million-in-one Kamikaze case, the average G.I. merely takes unwillingly the first step to make it available. The volition is usually some nervous reaction such as fear, impatience, confusion. 3) In battle a lot of young men learn for the first time that young men can, do and, under the circumstances, are likely to die. That thought makes them, if anything, merely more cautious -if they get another chance...
...wheels of peacetime industry began to whir. Now, the millions of people who had been displaced by the needs of war would have to settle down again. Unemployment was more than a fear, or an overworked word out of the dim '30s; it was a fact. By Christmas, some estimated, there might be 5,000,000 out of jobs...
Catholics have been brought up to fear and dislike Communism because of its avowed ungodliness. As Catholics we are indeed convinced that Christianity and Communism are irreconcilable in the same way that as Americans we believe that totalitarianism and democracy are incompatible...
...James Chadwick, British physicist, said that some of his colleagues had refused to work on the atomic bomb for fear that they might be creating a planet-destroying monster...
...Fear and despair gripped the Japanese nation. Over Hiroshima's "most awesome" destruction, Radio Tokyo moaned: "Diabolic weapon. . . . The corpses are too numerous to be counted. . . . Practically all living things, human and animals, were literally seared to death...