Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...settlement gave Israel important roads and railroads to link Haifa and Tel Aviv with Jerusalem. King Abdullah got Israel's recognition that he was the dominant power in Arab Palestine. More important still, both countries guaranteed each other's "security and freedom from fear of attack by the armed forces of the other." With only the Syrian armistice still to be negotiated, Ralph Bunche thought he would soon return...
...conscious about his looks. Playmates, with childish cruelty, called him "big lips" and "bulldog." In junior high, a teacher asked him in front of the class if he had any Negro blood. When he reached the age of wanting dates, the girls looked at him with frank distaste or fear and refused...
Thus, scarcely out of her teens, "quaking with fear and shaking like an aspen," Belle da Costa Greene began her career as head of the Pierpont Morgan Library. She was not to quake or shake for long. In time she became famous in her own field. The sight of her great plumed hats among auction bidders was enough to send auctioneers into a tizzy. Dealers learned to jump at her summons, and the news of one of her purchases for the Morgan Library could rock the whole book world. It was Belle who turned Morgan's first haphazard collection...
Screamed New York City's Local 555 of the Teachers' Union, C.I.O.: "The bill [will] let loose a reign of repression and fear . . . Legislators [have turned] these last hours of the legislative session into a Roman holiday thirsting for victims." The American Labor Party promised a test of the law in the courts at first chance. Said Senate Minority Leader Elmer F. Quinn: "We are burning down the barn to get rid of a couple of mice...
Fortitude Interludes. Contrary to the common belief that Nelson was a "very delicate man," the best evidence is that he was unusually robust. He had a morbid fear of serious illness, and it made him a self-centered hypochondriac; his letters swarmed with such remarks as: "I ... venture to say [that] a very short space of time will send me to that bourne from which none return . . ." To most of his seamen he was the kindest, gentlest hero imaginable; to his Sea Lords he was exasperatingly 'vindictive, suspicious and intolerant. He was as alarmingly unstable as a prima donna...