Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Said he: "The fear of prolonged unemployment following V-E day has been exaggerated. The war against Japan will demand the continued production of war materials . . . [and] we will speedily return to civilian production...
...Lithuanian-born Chaim Soutine was said by friends to have died of fear that the Germans would attack...
...Often trapped, he invariably escaped by charging headlong into his would-be captors. Often wounded and reported dead, he always turned up again more daring and dangerous than before. His name became "a synonym in the South for brave deeds and daring escapades, a byword in the North for fear and hatred and chagrin...
...pegging of wages on the basis of a 15% rise in the cost of living was ridiculous; that the "actual" living cost had rocketed 45% since January 1941. (The Bureau of Labor Statistics insists that living costs have gone up only 24%.) After the war, the unions fear they will lose the special wartime conditions that fattened pay envelopes : overtime, upgrading and night-shift premiums...
Britons had never hated the enemy as they did now, or lived in a more ironical compound of hope & fear. Anyone could see that Jerry was licked. But though he could not win by it, he was slamming over every flying bomb he had on hand before the Allied troops swept him out of France, took his launching sites. Soon he might be sending over even bigger, deadlier robombs from sites in the Low Countries or Germany. Said Health Minister Henry U. Willink, standing amid ruins...