Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ahorse, afoot and truck-fed. They could marshal superiority in numbers at any point they chose. They had a fifth column of diabolical proportions. In Kweilin, some said, General Kenji Doihara himself was directing the fifth column, but they were wrong. Behind the elbow of every soldier stood the fear of a traitor; the fifth column was among the refugee flood on southbound trains, collecting information, firing buildings, shooting at sight...
...like that in half a dozen little forest towns along the border, as fear gave way to sullenness and sullenness to little offers of assistance. But in Wallendorf, frenzied civilian snipers picked off the first patrols, shot down rescuing medical corpsmen. Wallendorf was burned to the ground...
...McLaughlin suggested that there might be great fear on the part of "a man going into service and leaving his dog behind." The medical students laughed. Dr. Josiah John Moore, president of Chicago's Medical Society, observed: "A parade of human beings who have been saved from diseases by work done on dogs . . . would take a week ... to pass down Michigan Avenue." Dr. Moore was then beset by hecklers. Up spoke Dr. Italo Frederick Volini, professor of medicine at Loyola University Medical School: "If this is a question of suffering and needless pain, do ... the ladies who have come...
...escaped prisoners hide out in a velvet-fogged marsh, full of artistically silhouetted reeds, which belongs, if anywhere, in Coronet. Heisler's exhaustion, fear and mistrust are merely stage props, never a living agony of nerves and soul. Tracy himself, careful and sincere and able as he is, is wrong for the role. By strong implication in the novel, George Heisler was a dramatically and morally fascinating species of human being, typical of 20th-century Europe if unfamiliar in the U.S.-a seasoned and astute professional revolutionist. George Heisler as presented in this cautious film is wholly nonpolitical except...
Between these versions one thing was clear: when field commanders hesitate to remove subordinates for fear of interservice contention,* battles and lives will be needlessly lost...