Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Crisis in The Netherlands. In the narrow sectors of liberated Holland the crisis was less acute, but the Maastricht appendix was inflamed. And over all liberated Holland the fear of hunger washed like the sea through the Nazi-blasted dikes. For it was chiefly the most industrialized sections of Holland that had been liberated. There was no meat, scarcely any bread. It was believed that reserves of fuel (and hence electric power) could not last out the month. Hordes of refugees from the flooded regions had swarmed into the cities, further complicating the food crisis...
...Chungking, where the fantastic inflation has caused businessmen to fear the financial worst, best guesses on the cause of the drop were: 1) military defeats, 2) diplomatic differences between the U.S. and China. But businessmen gloomily predicted that the end is not yet in sight. An ounce of gold (cost in U.S. dollars: $35) now sells for 30,000 Chinese dollars. Thus, the free exchange rate must go above 800-to-1 before it is proportionate to the gold exchange rate...
...most formidable opponent of all, if the Army waits too long to ask for its legislation, may be the people. Army men fear there may be a popular revulsion against military training after the war, fully expect to be called "militarists" once again. Yet there have already been attempts to postpone the decision on conscription until peacetime. Most powerful spokesman to date: the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, claiming to represent 26,000,000 U.S. Protestants, which has already made a public appeal for deferment of any Congressional action "until after...
...often gobbled eight peaches as a breakfast appetizer. He swilled his favorite medicine: "Dr. James's Powder for Fevers and Other Inflammatory Distempers." "I mind my belly very studiously," said he, "for I look upon it that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else." Fears and Friends. After his wife's death, the fear of dying and melancholy made him desperate for human company...
...says A. Philip Randolph, President of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, are learning that neither Democrats nor Republicans can safely be relied on for help. So far as the Negro is concerned, they are simply "two peas in a pod . . . tweedledee and tweedledum." Negroes are also losing their fear of being terrorized and beaten in retaliation for becoming politically active. "Time and again," says Professor Sterling A. Brown, "I heard the anecdote ... of the new sort of hero-the Negro soldier who, having taken all he could stand, shed his coat, faced his persecutors and said...