Word: fears
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...craggy Yugoslav villages, where for three years the sound of aircraft had been a sign as dread as the shadow of a hawk's wing across a henyard, villagers looked up at first in fear. Then they rushed out and cheered: the big formations of heavy bombers drumming overhead in stately alignment were U.S. planes outward bound from their bases in Italy...
...that the U.S. must have an independent foreign policy directed by the State Department and not simply drift along on decisions made at personal meetings of Franklin and Winston. Through the winter this pursuit of an independent policy has resulted in some strain between the U.S. and Britain, much fear that economic and political rivalry would set them against each other when war ends. By the time of Stettinius' trip, strains had already become apparent over Arabian oil, recognition of De Gaulle, Italian policy, attitude toward the Polish-Russian dispute, Argentine sanctions and the treatment of other neutrals. Stettinius...
...World. Curtin had not been in that office long when the world moved in on him and on Australia. First it was the Japs, a bitter disillusionment with the British at Singapore, a gripping fear. Then it was the Americans-and America...
Behind the case histories of each one of the 4,421 patients at Creedmoor, the 8,634 at Pilgrim, the 7,117 at Central Islip, the 5,855 at Rockland-in the padded violent cells and in the disinfected halls-there are human stories. The ache of ceaseless fear and the agony of ordered purposelessness are ever present in these crowded wards...
...combat shots in Memphis Belle were made on the spot. Some other shots of the crew and their comrades were made at leisure, but from start to finish the film never puts on the deadening look of reenactment. The hope and fear on the faces of the flyers when they get their orders to bomb Wilhelmshaven are real hope and fear. The hope and anxiety of the ground crew, waiting through a long, pastoral afternoon for the plane's return are just as real. The joy of both groups when, late and limping, the Belle gets back loses none...