Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lebanese Christians who fear engulfment in a Moslem bloc, the Greater Syria plan offers a "privileged" regime. To the 600,000 Jews of Palestine the plan promises "semi-autonomy" inside the larger Arab framework, with Jewish local government in predominantly Jewish areas (e.g., Tel-Aviv), but Arab government elsewhere...
...scrotum. Doctors have been less alarmed than troops by the disease, because even with repeated infections, less than 10% of the cases develop elephantiasis, and symptoms usually disappear after return to a temperate climate. But the disease's monstrous effects on native sufferers, the fear of possible impotency, and the fact that symptoms may break out months after the disease is contracted, have made filariasis a serious psychological problem for the armed forces...
...Brief psychotherapy" (as against analyses sometimes taking several years), is best known through the Army's technique of using drugs to get battle-shocked soldiers to spit out their troubles (TIME, Feb. 7). Many psychiatrists fear that apparently speedy cures may really have little effect, leave permanent psychic damage. The same objection has been raised to hypnoanalysis (Lindner's example was finished in 46 hourly sessions). But hypnoanalysis also has respectable support: it has been used by the Menninger Clinic in Topeka, Kan., by famed Psychiatrist Milton H. Erickson, of Michigan's Eloise Hospital...
...Executioner. "I make use of the ruling class," Hitler had shouted at Hermann Rauschning long ago. "I keep them in fear and dependence. I am confident that I shall have no more willing helpers. And if they become refractory, I can resort to the ancient, classical method and . . . kill off the former ruling class...
...Department-store sales were 4% over 1943, but merchants were cautious in placing orders for fall goods. The retailers fear: 1) a slump in sales as reconversion forces war workers off high-pay jobs; 2) a buyers' strike against ersatz goods, when production of better-quality civilian goods is resumed...