Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fixing the country's borders, set up the small sanjak (sub-prefecture) of Alexandretta, between Syria and Turkey, as an "autonomous" region under French control. To the Turks, this Levantine Sudetenland, which they called the Hatay, was a symbol of humiliation. In 1939, Menemencioglu used France's fear of war and need of an ally to win back the Hatay for Turkey, thus forever endearing himself to all Turks...
Reading as Usual. Huddled in their apartments in the face of atrocities so terrible the mind simply went blank under them, with subtle tortures added to their desperation, their ignorance of what was happening, and their fear, the Poles kept alive. They even continued to read books. Their favorite reading: Polish history, historical novels (e.g., Gone With the Wind...
...Clark Lee [I.N.S.], who had been through the mill so long and so boldly, began to get nerves. And frankly I was the worst of the lot, and continued to be. I began having terrible periods of depression and often would dream hideous dreams about it. All the time fear lay blackly deep upon your consciousness. It bore down on your heart like an all-consuming weight. People would talk to you, and you wouldn't hear what they were saying...
...Petrunkevitch regards fear of spiders as mischievous nonsense. Spiders, says he, never attack people unless hurt. He has handled hundreds of tarantulas, never been bitten. With evangelical fervor he points out that the spider is immensely useful to man; it carries no diseases, destroys many insects that do. The strong, fine strands of spider webs have been very helpful in the wartime manufacture of optical instruments and range finders. Says Pete Petrunkevitch, unmindful of Miss Muffet: "Only in civilized cities like New York and New Haven are the ladies afraid of spiders. In tropical lands the people value their presence...
...climate of feudalism, the Prussian landlords who crushed the revolution could not conceive of an economic society distinct from a political organization. The Prussian attempt to merge economics and politics, to use the power of the state to enhance the competitive power of the German economic machine, naturally provoked fear in Eng land, in France and in the U.S. And each attempt to shelter a group, an industry or a class from competition in the world market has resulted in reprisals. One "planned economy" has begotten another, and country after country has at least partially seceded from the natural world...