Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Roberts used to reply, "If I could only fly like Porky Cragg I would never fear...
...them out of their foxholes with well-placed rounds of phosphorus and when we had them above ground we plastered them with HE [high explosive]. We killed large numbers of them in that way and they sure dreaded the mortars. . . . Letters taken from prisoners have shown that the Germans fear...
...clear understanding that all he could hope to offer the U.S. civilian would be an occasional scrap from the military's groaning table. For months he battled with the Services just for the privilege of using the scraps. The military can spare the scraps all right, but they feared (and still fear) that U.S. civilians will automatically conclude that the war is about over if production of civilian goods is resumed...
...means agreed on the truth or falsity of Count Coudenhove-Kalergi's ideas. The Europeans have many answers to the "how," and no doubt the arguments in the concentration camps behind the walls of Festung Europa are as diverse as the populations that Hitler has enslaved. Fear of Russian intentions, fear of chaos, fear of the liquidation of the middle classes, fear of the possible postwar recrudescence of German might - these are merely a few of the fears that provoke Europeans to yeasty thinking. But the basic European quarrel is between those who look to the Atlantic Ocean...
...consisted of paternal lies (tall stories); another 15% played on the child's fear (of bears, burglars, being dropped, being deserted...