Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ocean-flying airmen, one mental hazard is the fear of being trapped in a submerged plane after a crash landing at sea-as many an airman has been trapped and drowned. Last week the Army's Air Technical Service Command announced an ingenious device to help trapped flyers: an oxygen mask for breathing under water while they fight clear of the plane...
More honest than most Communists, he has never tried to sweeten up his down trodden Negroes. His typical story is of some accidental clash between Negroes and whites springing from the fear and misunderstanding of both people, suddenly flaring into a lynching, a riot, a murder...
Behind this war whoop was strong-man Juan Domingo Perón's and his cohorts' fear of the effects of Argentina's hemispheric isolation. They would desperately like, even in absentia, to curry favor at the inter-American conference in Mexico City. To rig up some semblance of democratic thinking and pro-Allied feeling, Argentina has recently...
Britain's Variety Artists' Federation last week voted that, for ten years after the war, none of its members shall appear in any show on the British stage containing Germans, Japs or other former enemies. Dissenters were few but fiery. They charged 1) "emotionalism," 2) fear of postwar competition (many of the best jugglers and acrobats are German, Japanese and Italian...
...great worry is: will they be the pawns of the Colossus of the North, or honored, respected associates? The test of Nelson Rockefeller's long and earnest efforts to win Latin American friendship will be whether or not this Latin worry is deflated at Mexico City. If this fear is not removed, no Western Hemisphere working arrangement will be durable. If the worry is intensified, sooner or later Latin Americans will turn to some other power, perhaps to Britain or Russia, to counterbalance a new U.S. imperialism...