Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germans, who comprise 85% of the P.W. population,* think they are guarded excessively, and the more arrogant among them sneer: "That shows how they fear us." Some 1,300 have escaped from camps, but none "permanently" (for more than a year...
...shallower and slower there-and last week it was falling. If the Germans can pull themselves together, the Allied crossings are likely to be bloodily contested, especially if made in a frontal attack on the Ruhr. The Germans seemed to fear landings north and south of the Ruhr, aimed at quick envelopment of that vital industrial basin. Particularly, they seemed to fear the British Second Army, which, D.N.B. screamed, was moving up to Emmerich under smoke screens with 80,000 to 120,000 men and lavish bridging equipment...
...vainly for people. In a city of 700,000 no one now seemed alive. But there were people, perhaps some 120,000 of them. They had gone underground. They live and work in a long series of cellars, 'mouseholes,' cut from one house to the next." The fear of air power was branded deep on the people. They stammered out stories of the 25 major attacks driven home to their town, groped in their memories for the dates when this or that old landmark disappeared in a blockbuster's blast. Now even the put-put engine...
...meet any fear the Communists may have, the Government has expressed its willingness ... to place an American general in command of the Communist forces, under my overall command as supreme commander. . . . The Communists have, however, rejected all offers...
...fierce outburst of anti-U.S. feeling. President Franklin Roosevelt was booed in movie theaters. Salvadoran democratic leaders tried to hush the hullabaloo, were inclined to blame not the U.S., but the powerful United Fruit Co. They suspected that United Fruit opposed the spread of democracy for fear of increased taxes and stricter labor laws...