Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Letdown. But Army & Navy officials thought the need for a work-or-fight law was sharper than ever. The week's good news pointed up the armed services' greatest fear-that the end of the European war would cause a disastrous letdown on the home front...
...been Marshal Pétain's counselor and Vichy's foremost apologist. On his lapel he still wore Marshal Pétain's badge. "I do not fear facing a firing squad," he cried. "If I had to do it again, I would." He retracted nothing, not even his 1941 words-"De Gaulle is a traitor who commands the scum of the world." He thumped the ledge of the prisoners' dock, proclaimed himself a "patriot," read a seven-hour political harangue against every act of the Third Republic. The court listened wearily...
Meanwhile, little Mr. Q had few ways of maintaining his self-respect aside from his ailments. His chief satisfaction was in the paychecks he brought home, but some times there was nothing to bring. Marital relations were strained for fear of another child. (The doctors discovered that Mr. Q's vomiting began soon after his wife's last pregnancy...
...Ministry of Fear (Paramount), as Graham Greene wrote it, was a thriller so lambent with smolderings of conscience and with religio-psychological sidelights that one critic compared it with Dostoevski. In the film version these murky glimmerings are gone, and the thriller's glow is thus considerably dimmed. But it is a tensely directed (by Fritz Lang) and finely photographed show...
...voracious reader and prolific writer, Tyerman, as acting editor of the London Economist, wrote 9,000 words a week for four years. He wrote all its forthright editorials on Churchill, for whom he has unbounded admiration - and no fear...