Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have been taught that next to God our loyalty belongs to our country. It is just such intense nationalistic feeling that causes wars. Such fervor caused the Nazis to try for world domination. Extreme nationalism is making us fear the Russians. It is making many men die on the battlefields for mistaken ideals...
General Cho had left his own epitaph: "Twenty-second day, sixth month, 20th year of Showa era. I depart without regret, fear, shame or obligation. Age on departure 51 years...
Even brilliant epileptics, however, are haunted by fear of fits in public, or of the severe injuries which fits may bring about. In the British Medical Journal Dr. Gerald Caplan suggests a possible way to banish their worries. His idea: to drain off the epileptic's excess electrical energy by giving him an artificial fit "under controlled conditions of time & place" with the electric shock treatment used in insanity...
...Crisis, a bi-weekly journal which Reinhold Niebuhr started in 1941 to fight pacifist religious views, came to much the same conclusions: the war might be shortened "if we were to state the conditions of peace, however harsh, in clear terms and thus . . . prevent the militarists from using the fear of annihilation as their final resource of power over the nation...
Though the people loved and knew by heart scores of the poet's stanzas, they were now massed to acclaim the dictator Caesar in a "howl of joy . . . victorious, violent, unbridled, fear-inspiring, magnificent, fawning, the mass worshiping itself in the person...