Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Last week, as during any week since the end of World War II, the U.S. citizen had plenty to worry him: Russia, prices, the fear of a depression and the damned atom hung like grey fog just in back of his everyday thoughts. But when he got into his car and hit the highway on a warm spring day he felt no pain...
...took a daring step: he organized a county police force to compete with the sheriff's office. Big, mean, 29-year-old Ambrose Metcalfe, who had served as a sergeant in an armored division during World War II, became its captain. He swaggered out to "throw the fear of God" into Harlan County...
...press, of elections, were "vital to peace," he said, and asked: "Where are the cheers?" There were none. He declared that the "bureaucrats of the proletariat no less than the bureaucrats of the bourgeoisie" must learn that "men want freedom to learn the truth, to be free of fear of the police, to change their governments." Again he asked: "Where are the cheers?" Again there were none...
...believe in open forums and I believe in free speech," Noville said, "but I do not think our school halls should be open to a man who by his acts has shown that ... his entire philosophy ... is founded on fear and terror...
...event in Cuenca the matador faces a moment worse than any he has known in the bull ring: his mistress and his best friend are killed in an auto smashup after spending the weekend together. Matador Bello, knowing in his bones that both have betrayed him, feels uncontrollable fear for the first time. At the gate of the Cuenca bull ring, his mouth is dry, his palms...