Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...opposition had sent up, as its most eloquent expert, former Navy Secretary Josephus Daniels, still spry at 83. His chief argument: the move to peacetime conscription was "pumped-up propaganda," based on false premises-fear, cynicism and imperialism...
Spruille Braden, U.S. Ambassador to Argentina, summoned the U.S. correspondents into his office. Pleased as an outsized Punch, he "announced that the Argentine Government had abolished all press censorship. Henceforth the newsmen might cable their stories direct, without subterfuge, delay or fear of retaliation. The correspondents were properly gratified, gave hard-hitting Braden much of the credit. Only one skeptic remarked: "Seems we heard this before...
...rough and their language gets coarse. . . . Their nobility and dignity come from the way they live unselfishly and risk their lives to help each other." There are all kinds-"but when they are all together and they are fighting, despite their bitching and griping and goldbricking and mortal fear, they are facing cold steel and screaming lead and hard enemies, and they are advancing and beating the hell out of the opposition...
Chaplain Myers believes that his plain speaking should act as a challenge to churchmen: "There is no need for our churches to fear the truth. Frankness in this matter is not against the war effort, and it isn't expected of churches that they should surrender their idealism. We should understand now, before the great discharge of soldiers begins, that foxholes are not now and never will do the work of our Christian institutions...
...Paul's. Of Death-whether in his famous "For-whom-the-bell-tolls" sermon, or in many poems of which this one (reprinted from Reader's Companion, edited by Louis Kronenberger-Viking, $2) is a-distinguished example-he wrote with solemn grandeur, and a consoling lack of fear...