Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...thing about it all is that the average man, making up his income tax or with some other worry, hasn't the foggiest notion of what Lord Halifax did say and, what is more, doesn't care . . . which is the way, we fear, with a lot of those hectic controversies which politicians, publicists and pundits imagine to be historymaking, but which in the end don't matter at all. The publicists, pundits and politicians get themselves all worked up and imagine that all the rest of us are worked up too, when the truth is that...
Only requirement for the Central Medical School, at Suva in the Fiji Islands, is the equivalent of a good U.S. high-school education. Students are given four years of anatomy and surgery. One thing students find hard to unlearn: their fear of native witch doctors...
They Dare Not Go AHunting, a psychological study of the relations between a mother and her daughter, was inspired by a line from British Poet William Ailingham's The Fairies ("We daren't go ahunting for fear of little men"). Born (1919) Dorothea Graff in Pittsburgh (she married Du Pont Engineer Donovan Cornwell on leaving high school), Author Cornwell began her literary career writing book reviews for the Youngstown (Ohio) Vindicator, later turned to short-story writing. In 1942 she won second prize in a Story magazine short-story contest. A devotee of dancing, riding, dogs and South...
...Even those who have been most critical of De Gaulle the man, those who fear that De Gaulle has undemocratic ambitions, see that there is no way out but to accept him and his organization as A Necessary Expedient. It is as plain as day that the more De Gaulle is opposed and ignored by the Anglo-Americans, the more unbending and unyielding De Gaulle & Co. become, and the more of a symbol he becomes in France. Almost everyone agrees that if Roosevelt tempered his obstinacy on the question of De Gaulle, the chances for a successful liberation of France...
...Very few people in high places think that there is much to fear from De Gaulle, no matter what his ambitions may be. Even those who consider him dangerous say by all means play ball with him so that his power does not grow. The French, these people say, will be able to keep De Gaulle in check-but only after the Allies extend their hand to him and his organization...