Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half hour after the first planes roared overhead, the whole town seemed ablaze. The overhanging clouds turned salmon pink underneath. Apprehension gave way to fear. The crackle of flames, the hiss of water on molten girders, the incessant clang of firebells provided a sullen noisy backdrop for the whurrump of cascading bombs. Incendiary bombs cracked against walls in a blinding bluish white flash...
...hope: perhaps the victors would not carve Rumania right off the map if doing so meant rewarding Hungary and Bulgaria. But professional Rumanians could no longer be sure that the patient peasantry would remember the lessons their betters had long sought to drive home: cling to your king and fear the Red Russians like the plague...
...almost a challenge. Fortnight ago the Roman Catholic hierarchy of the U.S. told their 23,000,000 U.S. Catholics that they saw little reason to rejoice at the Moscow Declaration (TIME, Nov. 27). The pact left "an uneasiness in minds intent on peace with justice to all," a fear that "compromises on the ideals of the Atlantic Charter are in prospect...
...really sweating and talking to myself. . . . I don't know whether anger or fear was dominant. . . . I really did not expect to get back to the field. . . . Damn it, I started this whole screwy report to try and give you a picture of a pilot's thoughts and feelings under what I consider the most terrifying of conditions and I can't seem to be able...
...trying to fly the plane, and at the same time I was trying to reassure myself . . . trying to convince myself that I did have a chance, and then telling myself it didn't make any difference anyway. . . . The idea of impending death did not bother me . . . the fear I felt seemed to be from another source...