Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What we want and need is 1) a sense of direction, 2) enthusiasm for our future, 3) promise of a society where the watchword will be "work and livelihood for willing hands." This as opposed to 1) confusion as to our aims, 2) fear of the future, 3) promise of unemployment benefits and old-age security...
News publications seldom provoke me to the extent of written remarks, but I feel that this issue [Oct. 23] of TIME has so seriously injured my opinion of your publication as to require a small rebuttal. I fear that it will take many months of honest news reporting before you can eliminate the bad taste which this issue has left in the mouths of faithful readers...
...first time in the war, the British revealed a fortnight ago that war has cut her export trade 51%, from ?471 million in 1938 to ?232 million in 1943. Many Britons fear she may never regain her lost markets. But many also believe they have some advantages: 1) the world will be crying for all kinds of goods after the war; 2) such competitors as Germany and Japan will be knocked out; 3) the U.S. is hampered in its efforts to compete by a sharp rise in its cost of production; 4) most nations have plenty of sterling exchange with...
...airmen have located the areas of greatest danger from flying birds. The migrations follow fixed routes; the heaviest traffic is up & down the Mississippi-Missouri Valley. Duck strikes are most frequent, but flyers do not fear them as much as certain heavier birds. A 15-lb. goose, flying at 50 m.p.h., colliding head on with a 200-m.p.h. plane, can do formidable damage...
...rookie, surprised at being jolted out of his civilian rights, he has slowly hardened into the seemingly resigned, latently hopeful man he is. In battle his hatred for MPs has softened, because MPs also die. His enthusiasm for undermining the "officer system" has waned. He studiously avoids talk of fear and death. He knows that his only reward for pushing the enemy back over one cold, rocky mountain is a chance to push him over the next...