Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old former Prime Minister assented that "Europe would have been Communized and London under bombardment some time ago but for the deterrent of the Atomic Bomb in the hands of the United States," and claimed that fear of the West's friendship, not of its hostility, lies at the base of Russia's "sinister and malignant policy...
...followed this statement with his own answer to "this strange conundrum. . . . It is because they fear the friendship of the West more than its hostility. They cannot allow free and friendly intercourse to grow up between the vast area they control and the civilization of the West. The Russian people must not see what goes on outside, and the world must not see what goes on inside the Soviet domain...
About the time the major league teams are finishing their spring training and getting ready to head north, Harvard leaves Soldiers Field for a week's visit to sundry southern baseball diamonds. This is the annual spring trip which every year strikes fear into the hearts of Crimson ball players and coaches...
...Pernicious" School. Ordained in 1940, after a shortened course of studies, Father Herrera was appointed assistant pastor in one of the poorest sections of Santander. Here Don Angel, as his parishioners called him, saw at once how desperately Spain needed a socially conscious clergy. But though he did not fear to tread on this dangerous ground, Don Angel knew too much to rush in. Instead, he formed a small club called the Casa Sacerdotal. Priests came to the club, ostensibly to prepare their Sunday sermons. Actually they discussed world problems in terms of the most advanced Catholic social thinking...
...sugar, 6 Ibs. of coffee. He tells what the emigrants talked about, what songs they sang, their feasts and prayer meetings, the condition of the road and the weather, the imagined hazards (Indians and Mormons) and the real ones-fleas, whiskey, mules' hind legs, cholera, poisoned water. Fear, worry, loneliness and monotony took a toll, too. A man suddenly began to run in circles, declaring that Providence had decreed that he was to be buried in that circle (he was soundly trussed up and placed in a wagon). A woman suddenly began to set fire to anything that would...