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Word: fears (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...besides we American girls were under the impression that the Army was in England for a purpose, and it isn't that. If we are perturbed about the boys being in England this spring it is because we feel that they are in danger and the danger we fear for them is not an English woman's charms. We were also under the impression that there is a war going on and that it isn't to decide who is the prettier- English or American girls...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jun. 12, 1944 | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

They did not wreck Naples. They did not wreck Rome. The fear that extremist Nazis intend to ravage the rest of Europe has been carefully cultivated by German terror propaganda. But the Swiss weekly Die Weltwoche, in the past no sucker for German propaganda, reported that such plans did exist. The paper's informants said that the catacombs and sewers of Paris were "stuffed with dynamite," that Warsaw, Prague, other cities were to be laid waste if the plans were carried out, that Berlin's frantic exploitation of Allied bomb damage was to be used to justify unlimited...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INTERNATIONAL: Destruction, Unlimited? | 6/12/1944 | See Source »

...that Christ's "divinity was not separated from His manhood for one moment or for the twinkling of an eye." Islam diminished but never drowned the Coptic influence. In the 17th Century, Jesuits failed to win the Ethiopian Copts to the Roman Catholic fold. Now the Egyptian Copts fear that if Haile Selassie's demand is denied, he may align the Ethiopian Copts with a rival body-perhaps the Greek Orthodox Church...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ETHIOPIA: Coptic Quarrel | 5/29/1944 | See Source »

...Tito speaks calmly and deliberately, with a faint trace of a Slovenian accent, and lets himself be interrupted at will. He speaks perfect German and Russian as well as some French. He reads English fluently and understands the talk pretty well, but is too shy to speak English for fear of mistakes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: TITO'S YUGOSLAVIA | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

From an almost forgotten quarter came a loud, firm "no." It was the voice of the Marines, who fear that unification would end the identity of their proud Corps. Said Lieut. General A. A. Vandegrift, Commandant: "We can envision no gain ... in any reorganization which would discard a tradition and an esprit. . . which have become inspiring parts of the heritage of our people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Army & Navy - COMMAND,WEAPONS: Maybe, Later? | 5/22/1944 | See Source »

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