Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...TIME (June 19) you include Walter Gieseking among other artists who are allegedly friends of the Nazis and who now stand in fear of reprisal. The facts in his case, with which I am fully familiar by reason of my being manager of all his American tours for 15 years, completely negate the implication in your article...
...Monty had not yet tipped his hand. The Germans fear another Allied landing in force somewhere on the French, Belgian or Dutch coasts, and they must hold out enough strength to meet it. They know that the Allies could well put another major port to good use, and might drive for Le Havre...
Through three daylight summer nights Ribbentrop played on President Risto Ryti's fear of Red Russians while spineless Henrik Ramsay, Finland's Foreign Minister, and indecisive Premier Edwin Linkomies sat by bemused. Then Ryti took the offer to the full Cabinet. He encountered unexpected opposition from Russian-hating Finance Minister Väinö Tanner, strong man of Finnish politics and long the leader of Finland's fight-to-the-finish school. The battle in the Cabinet was so close that Ryti decided against submitting the proposal to the Finnish Diet. Instead he used his wartime power...
Catholics and Spain Sirs: If TIME'S "experienced, serious observer" (TIME, May 29) is as ignorant of Spanish affairs as he is of the Catholic Church, we think that General Franco need hardly fear a revolution on his testimony. It is rather difficult to understand the mentality that can characterize as "serious" a correspondent who accuses the Catholic Church of selling indulgences, exploiting the people, collecting its 10% or fomenting civil wars...
...Sergeant Dick Taylor (who, though wounded later, kept at his job) from a landing barge, with his camera focused on the bow. The barge is under fire. The men in it, crouched low, show a physical, animal restlessness more revealing-and far more complex-than any manifestation of pure fear. Beyond the bow of the barge, wavering with the motion of the water, and terrifyingly close, loom the upper floors of bleak Norman seaside houses. The barge opens its mouth. Not in a neat, eager, clattering rush as people have sometimes imagined, but wretchedly, one by one, crabwise the crouching...