Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect of so-called Presidential indecision, regarding strikers and homefront, etc. will be forgotten by the time of the fourth-term decision. The real detriment to the future of the present Administration, a fear for the preservation of an independent legislative branch, has been discredited. . . . The people can again afford to indulge in their favorite personality-Franklin D. Roosevelt, without fear of losing their democratic process...
...summer of quick and seemingly easy victories, the whole nation seemed to be smiling. The soldiers at the front, 5,000 miles away, might be oppressed by loneliness and fear, might suffer pain and weariness, but few citizens at home could not help being optimistic...
...whose income, never over $5,000, had dropped to $3,600. Boggs found that the man did not even know the full names of many of his patients, nor what they owed him. He needed a rest, but did not dare take a two-week vacation for fear of losing income and patients. Boggs made him go away for a month, sent out handsome engraved announcements saying why the doctor had gone and when he would be back. On his return, the doctor found more patients in his waiting room than ever before. One day an office patient asked...
Says Bragdon, the recent race riots are "volcanic eruptions of underlying heat and pressures of hate and fear of hate. They can not be blamed on the war, and we can't, by making subversive groups the scapegoats escape our social responsibility." As for the schools solving the problem of inter-racial tensions, he reminds us that "the public can't expect the school to combat prejudice by itself, but at the same time, the school does have a part to play...
...created several modifications of the original theme as developed by Norman Rockwell [TIME, June 21]. . . . Freedom of Speech . . . will show separate scenes. . . . Freedom from Want has been designated for the west panel. Here is portrayed Cornucopia pouring out its bounteous contents. . . . The fourth panel . . . will delineate Freedom from Fear. The ever-protecting element of mother love will be indicated by a mother holding her child in her arms. The carefree yet rhythmic motions of the nature dancer complete the theme for this panel...