Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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What will happen now? Junking the Little Steel formula at this point, thus giving millions of workers a pre-election wage raise, would seem too raw a piece of politics to those voters who honestly fear inflation. And if the President sits tight, he may lose labor votes...
Mission from Britain. At first the outside world heard chiefly the reverberations of the Tito-Mihailovich clashes. In London and Washington the facts of the Yugoslav resistance were obscured in a game of propaganda hide-and-seek. King Peter's men, through ignorance or fear, or both, would not acknowledge the existence of the Communist leader of the Partisans. They controlled the channels of news coming out of Yugoslavia to the Allied side. For two years the Allied public did not even hear of Tito...
...writer is moved mainly by the people's courage, their heroism and their scorn of death. He is far less prone to dwell on other emotions which unquestionably do exist in people's hearts - on such feelings as a longing for home, on man's natural fear in the face of peril, on bodily fatigue and depressing thoughts...
Some notables in both parties showed reluctance to campaign for their own sides. Wendell Willkie, still abed in a Manhattan hospital for a physical checkup, discussed for Collier's the "inadequate" Negro planks in both party platforms. Minnesota's G.O.P. Senator Joseph H. Ball reported his fear that Tom Dewey was not internationalist-minded enough. Said Senator Ball: "I would violate my own deepest conviction if I were at this time ... to campaign for Governor Dewey." And at a newsmen's luncheon in Manhattan, ex-Mayor Jimmy Walker cracked: "Like Farley, I'm still a Democrat...
...four children to look after. There are Katrin, the oldest, who wants to be a writer; Christine, blonde, the prettiest member of the clan; Nels, the young man of the house; and Dagmar, the precocious, animal-loving seven-year-old girl. Naturally, Mama doesn't want her children to fear poverty, so she invents a neat little myth about a bank account. But of course, no one ever "goes to the bank" because Mama always figures a way out of every emergency...