Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...important gold and copper mining industries were badly hurt. Mining machinery will be needed. Mining men fear that many shafts in the mines have caved in, would be costly to reopen...
Civil affairs officers had long known that the more than half-million Okinawans would constitute a major problem. Whether they would be friendly or hostile had not been known. These first people, once their fear quieted, seemed friendly and docile enough. In their behavior there seemed reason to hope that in Japan's Ainu strain, a people might be found ready to reject the militarism of the Japanese and live at peace with the world...
...Germans seemed to be scattering before Patton's attacks. They had reason to fear him. He had consistently out-slicked them, mauled them, beaten them. The Germans had always put more men and guns opposite Patton's outfits. Now there were fewer German men and guns. One reason: Patton's Third and Lieut. General Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army had rung up one of the big victories of the war in the Saar-Palatinate cleanup, had removed more than 150,000 Germans who might now be blocking Patton's path...
...German people might well be beyond fear and past credulity. Propaganda Minister Paul Joseph Goebbels could stamp his clubfoot in impotent rage. Uncontrolled rumor had replaced controlled news. The Germans heard such rumors as these...
...avoidable by cleanliness and sanitation-were common. So were smallpox, scarlet fever, measles, colds, pneumonia, tuberculosis. Asiatic cholera decimated many towns in the 1830s and '40s. Other popular ailments included insanity, alcoholism, "scolding," and a mysterious disease known as "ennui" or "hypo," marked by "feelings of dullness, fear, indefinite pains and lack of desire to attend to any business...