Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...implications of this action by the new U.S. President could not be missed anywhere in the world-certainly not in Moscow. The great fear of Big Three disunity still haunted the chancelleries. Meanwhile, the U.S. was doing some political digging-in of its own in Europe...
...first week of Allied victory, the Allied world dared to name its fear. The London Economist, long a bulwark of Anglo-Russian friendship, publicly examined the alternatives to a break with the Soviet Union. Ely Culbertson...
...invasion of Britain. Last week Rundstedt, comparing the German landing barges to those used by the Allies in Normandy, referred to the German craft as "apple barges." He added that as far as he knew, the German High Command's reason for abandoning the invasion of Britain was fear of the British fleet...
...popular all over Europe, but although Sicily fell in 1943, there still have been no municipal elections because we fear that they will result in communist officials. In Southern Italy we did not know the leaders of each town so we kept the old mayors rather than hold elections and the old mayors were in many cases fascists...
Final Goad. The New York Post's self-styled Saloon Editor Earl Wilson, whose usual preoccupation is with movie stars' brassieres and "derrieres," interrupted Molotov's press conference to ask whether vodka was pronounced "wodka" and whether it could "be consumed . . . without fear of internal injury." This was the final goad to Scripps-Howard's Peter Edson, who promptly exploded in type...