Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Communists spurned Chiang's offer. Their reason: fear that they would get only minor Government jobs, and that their Army would be wiped...
...biggest single problem today is the disunity within China itself; The Kuomintang is disliked more every day, due to fear of the Army and the attitude of tax collectors; this is proved by the revolts of the peasantry, criticism by provincial leaders, student revolts against conscription. . . . The Generalissimo looks askance at the Communists because he feels they are too strong and, if unchecked, might supersede the Kuomintang...
...skill by such famed crippled veterans as Charles Craig McGonegal (TIME, Feb. 14). When a crippled veteran is finally discharged from the Army, he has a life pension (e.g., $30 a month for a leg) and has usually begun to learn a trade. What General Kirk and his staff fear most is that oversolicitous or thoughtless civilians may undo their careful work...
World War II's fighting men have told frankly how it feels to be afraid (TIME, Dec. 25). Last week, in a report to the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, Lieut. Ralph E. Kirsch described not only how it feels but how fear in battle translates itself into bodily reactions...
...Scared as Hell." On his first combat flight, Lieut. Kirsch did nothing but find out for himself how battle fear feels. He was "literally 'scared as hell' from the time the aircraft neared the target area until it had passed well out of range of the island's defenses." His mouth was dry ("spitting cotton"), his hands were drenched in icy sweat, his heart beat so hard he could feel its throb. Over the target "there was a strong impulse to seek the shelter of any available armor plate in the cockpit. A sensation of helplessness left...