Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Union without Spoils. To meet this problem, he offered a concrete solution: let the U.S. dispel her Allies' fear by making a treaty with them guaranteeing the use of force to keep Germany and Japan disarmed forever. Said he: "Surely we can agree that we do not want an instant's hesitation or doubt about our military cooperation in the peremptory use of force, if needed, to keep Germany and Japan demilitarized. Such a crisis would be the lengthened shadow of the present war. ... It should be handled as this present war is handled...
...Well," he related, "the nerviest convict I can remember was one brazen fellow who didn't show a trace of fear while being strapped into the chair. Took it just as calmly. As a matter of fact, he asked only one question. Just before they turned on the juice, he glanced at the official electrocutioner and said, 'By the way, bud, is this AC or DC?' " JOHN HARDEN
Many a U.S. businessman is beset by the nagging fear that wartime controls will be kept on postwar industry too long for the nation's good. But last week businessmen were firmly told that what they should really fear is that controls may be dropped too soon...
Last week the eyes of the U.S. turned with fear and questioning on Eisenhower as he faced the gravest setback of his career. The invasion was his first great responsibility; this his second. But Eisenhower refused to admit that a battle was lost while it was still being fought. He proclaimed to his troops...
...nerves that some of them even recoiled from a caged mouse. Then he gave them alcohol by injection or stomach tube. It quickly cured their jitters. They went back into their cages and, despite their alcoholic befuddlement, they boldly tackled and opened food boxes they had been taught to fear. Submissive cats took food away from domineering ones...