Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fear that the next big Republican wind might be a tornado has long disturbed Democratic officeholders in Oklahoma. Since 1928 they have been busily digging a storm cellar...
Pushing south and west from Kharkov, the Red Army will emerge onto open, forest-free flatland ideal for swift, grand-scale tank maneuvers and mobile warfare. The Germans already fear the loss of this year's harvest in the Ukraine. Trapped by a push that threatens to reach the southern anchor of the Dnieper line and the Crimea, they would be up against a more fearful strategic problem: to retreat would mean giving up their greatest prize; to stand and fight it out would be risking annihilation of approximately...
...Panic. The aftermath of Hamburg was a great fear throughout the Reich. Refugees streamed from the stricken city, spread tales of horror. German propagandists had once spoken gloatingly of the destruction which their Luftwaffe visited on British cities; they could find no words now to quell the rising terror of their people under the Allied bombs. The Völkischer Beobachter, official organ of the Nazi Party, wrote: "The whole Reich and the largest cities are within reach of enemy planes. Nobody underestimates the imminence of danger." Reich Marshal Hermann Göring, who once said: "If a single bomb...
...Vatican policy toward Russia, which pleases scarcely anybody. The papacy's unflagging crusade against Communism in & out of Russia has long infuriated Leftists. Its recent broadcasts to Russia in Russian have worried: 1) radicals, who fear Catholic propaganda; 2) conservatives, who wonder what the Vatican...
...This indifference to the commonplaces of liberal thought makes the very texture of Forster's novels. . . ." The theme of Forster's first novel, Where Angels Fear To Tread, is the "violent opposition between British respectability and a kind of pagan and masculine integration" in the character of Gino Carella. "For the poor, lost, respectable British people, Gino may serve as the embodiment of the masculine and pagan principle, but Forster knows that he is also coarse, dull, vain, pretentious, facilely polite and very much taken with the charms of respectability...