Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then Candidate Truman let his campaign theme run away with his judgment: ''If you let the Republican reactionaries get complete control of the Government ... I would fear not only for the wages and living standards of the American workingman, but even for our democratic institutions of free labor and free enterprise...
...grey-haired clerk leaning innocently against a desk, spin him around, swing a haymaker at the man's temple and send him sprawling across the marble floor against the wall. The man got up holding his aching head, shaking it slowly as if in disbelief. Fighting and fear spread swiftly...
...spent nearly all her life in mean dwellings and six years of it in Rumanian jails. Now she lives in three great houses, moving almost every night because she fears assassins. (Scores of other Rumanians shift their sleeping quarters from night to night because they fear Ana's secret police.) One of her houses belonged to Prince Brancoveanu. One belonged to Nicolae Malaxa, big industrialist and speculator. And one belonged to red-haired Magda Lupescu, ex-King Carol's mistress and now his wife...
...with a mouselike talent for making himself inconspicuous. Last week he ordered the members of his cabinet not to leave Paris for two months, in view of the financial emergency. His program stuck close to the Reynaud plan, which had caused the Socialists to upset the last two governments. Fear of Charles de Gaulle was making the Socialists meeker...
confusion and artificially created fear...