Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hope I have a chance to make sure you and Elizabeth got back okay in spite of the terrific 101 degrees-as I find no fear-perhaps even peace of mind but a sad lonesomeness-it is strange with a lot of people supposedly looking...
...Charles University, replied in pungent, accented English: "Even the enormous wealth and the atomic power of the American nation must not deceive us ... The Western nations have ceased to be the exclusive masters and architects of the world . . . What I have in mind is Western man's apparent fear, frustration and helplessness in dealing with the great issues of our times. Anxiety about the advancing social transformations under the leadership of the Soviet Union is depriving the average Western citizen of a real grasp of the situation . . . [Communism represents] much of the social impetus of the living church from...
...CHICAGO, Samuel Cardinal Stritch told the Summer School of Catholic Action: "Let us admit that we are not succeeding in presenting the Christian ideal so that it fires the imagination and enthusiasm of our fellow men. Perhaps too many of us are indulging in compromise and yielding to fear . . . Human respect makes us tolerant of compromise. Let us Set away from that." Members of the school picked Bing Crosby as "the Catholic layman who has made the most important contribution to the ... Church...
...good people cooperate with the Communists from their fear of reactionary conspiracies. They live in a world in which conspiracies are constantly forming against them, such as the Hooded Men in France and Colonel McCormick and William Randolph Hearst in the U.S. The world conspiracy of Communism leaves them largely unmoved...
...father and a Catholic serving-girl mother. In border County Fermanagh, that was enough to brand her. When Bridie was orphaned, she was disowned by her father's Protestant family and brought up by her mother's sister, a dour, devout Catholic. Aunt Rose Anne instilled the fear of God in Bridie, a shy, spritelike creature who loved to run wild on the bog, disliked school and was passionately fond of easygoing Uncle James. When Uncle James died, Aunt Rose Anne went to work at the convent and Bridie hired out as a servant. It was nice...