Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...There are powers in the world we fear more than the Colossus. He is, after all, our Colossus. Besides, if he becomes predatory, as he used to be, we now have the world organization to appeal to. Not that it will do much good-the Colossus has his veto. But there is the Assembly. And moral suasion. And in our little spats with each other, there is the Court...
...very large extent the specific recommendations made by our church groups have been given effect. The basic conception of Dumbarton Oaks was that a few great powers would wield overwhelming military might to repress violence. The nations represented at San Francisco found that conception unacceptable. A few feared that the Great Powers would in fact agree upon a use of force which unguided by moral principles would be oppressive and unjust. Many more feared that the five Great Powers would be unable to agree among themselves and that the Security Council would be impotent as an organ for action. This...
Cried the Christian Democrat Popolo: "There is fear of a Red revolution." Growled the Communist Unita: "The situation is grave and will certainly grow worse unless the masses are given to feel that liberation is not a vain word...
Methods by which this highest of all ends can best be achieved have been advanced by some of the most enlightened leaders of thought throughout the censures. But we may well fear that vast numbers of people still think of the word "peace" as in plying a condition which is essentially static. They still think of peace as being negative rather than as a concept which can truly be only positive...
Those Endearing Young Charms (RKO-Radio) confronts Robert Young, an Air Forces wolf on furlough in New York, with Laraine Day, an impressionable girl. She lives with a mother (Ann Harding) whose memories of her own blighted romance make her at first fear for her daughter, then urge her to go ahead and take her chances. Kicked around rather heartlessly among these three is Bill Williams, an unlucky lump of puppy love. During most of the film Mr. Young is about as systematically caddish as a man can well be and yet rate stellar billing; he even pretends...