Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...down his brother's murderers, whoever they might be, in order to prevent other reporters from being intimidated by the threat of personal violence. He felt that since his brother's murder, most American newsmen in Greece have ceased to report news that any political faction might dislike, for fear that their sources, or they themselves, might be killed in retaliation...
...fear was widespread that if the Communists won the battle of Suchow, raging crowds would spread destruction through Nanking and Shanghai. To bolster morale for the time being, a giant "Victory Parade" was ordered in Nanking. U.S. military experts on the spot did not believe that the government would have a victory to celebrate...
More sophisticated Mexicans took the comet in stride. At Tacubaya Observatory, Astronomer Guillermo Haro patiently explained over & over that there was nothing to fear, that the comet would soon disappear. Some tradesmen saw a chance to make money. A haberdasher advertised: "Comet Sale-Everything Goes Fast!" Gloria Duval, chic hairdresser at the Hotel Reforma, introduced a Comet Hairdo, an upswept...
...like a child . . . She broods all night. She'd keep me up hour after hour going over everything that'd been said, worrying about what she'd said and done." Herman Shumlin once said: "Like all important people, she is always filled with fear-the gnawing, consuming fear that she may not be quite good enough...
...Professor Joughin uses this phrase as a title. It is interesting to note that the popular antipathy to Sacco and Vanzetti decreased roughly in proportion to the increase in distance from New England. In New York and Paris thousands of sympathizers rioted in the streets, but in Boston the fear of radicalism and the belief that Massachusetts justice was being hamstrung by "foreign" propaganda, caused a large majority of the people to favor the death penalty for the defendants...