Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Secretary Stettinius delivered a sensible, realistic speech which struck no fire, admirably fitted the business and mood of the conference. He recognized the Big Powers' dominant role, acknowledged their responsibility to the world: "There can be no end to the tyranny of fear and want unless the proposed world organization commands the allegiance of both the mind and the conscience of mankind...
...changed the German character. It has not infused new political strength into these people who can not only be led, hypnotized, to their own destruction, but can actually be made to participate in it. In all the various emotions which the Germans are feeling now-fear, anger, hopelessness, bitterness, shame, servility and helplessness-there is one which you will rarely find and that is a sense of guilt, the sense of being responsible personally and as a nation for what has happened...
...matter." They found the dictator and his mistress in a cottage on a hill outside the village. When he saw his countrymen approaching, Mussolini thought they had come to liberate him. Joyfully he embraced his Petacci. When he learned that he was under arrest, his face turned yellow with fear and fury. He cried: "Let me save my life, and I'll give you an empire...
...despite Dr. Norton's persuasiveness, chances for federal aid seemed little brighter than during all the years (the last hearing was eight years ago) that educators have quarreled about it. Although the bill stipulates that state and local control shall remain inviolate, archconservatives fear the bogey of federal control of schools; some Catholics are afraid that their parochial schools would suffer; many a Congressman suspects selfish motives in the bill's main lobbyist, the National Education Association, whose membership is composed overwhelmingly of teachers (who stand to gain a $200-million-a-year boost in total salaries...
...extent by "all classes from border ruffian to Boston Brahmin." Pastoral simplicities like Seldom Seen, Possum Glory, Chicken Bristle, Hog Eye, Ticklenaked, Pokamoonshine, Stop-theJade, Bug Tussel and Pennsylvania's neighboring Intercourse and Fertility are as native and natural as those that recall forgotten troubles and tragedies-Cape Fear, Cape Foulweather, Gunsight Hills, Broken Bow, Massacre Lake, Deadman Creek. "The other Tokyo." World War II has shown that local pride-of-name can now stand up to anything. Except for Germania and Swastika, not a single U.S. town has shed its German name. All four Tokyos have survived, showing...