Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...week when General Lucius Clay declared that the Berlin Airlift could be expanded and continued indefinitely (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). If it used the interval to apply the lessons it had learned from the Berlin crisis, the West would come to a conference with the Russians with little reason to fear a setback...
When the Western Union nations met last week at The Hague (see below), they were frightened, divided and frustrated. Talk of impending war reminded them of how weak they were. This fear could be turned into an asset by the anti-Communist nations if it gave to Western Union a sense of urgency, if it could be quickly translated into a real political, military and economic program for a Western Union which would be far stronger than the sum of its parts...
...people in making his getaway. Edwina hides him for ten days, nurses him, becomes his mistress. She stands in horror of his past, suffers from his coarseness, even realizes that Dennehay wouldn't hesitate to kill her at the first suspicious move. But greater than her revulsion and fear is the larger fear of the lonesomeness that awaits her when he leaves. For even this windfall, this shabby and dangerous interlude of love, her gratitude is immense...
Should nuns be allowed to teach in public schools? All North Dakota had been seething over the question, though newspapers and radio stations had barely mentioned it, for fear of aggravating religious tensions...
Sometimes the consequence is painful. There is the book whose title was taken from a line in T. S. Eliot's Waste Land: "I will show you fear in a handful of dust." A Handful of Dust tells about a dull Englishman whose dedicated obsession is to retrieve from the waste of time and progress the hideous country house which is his real love. His wife betrays him with a cheap social hanger-on who is not even physically attractive. His son & heir is killed. To save his sanity, the man betrayed by life & death goes abroad. In South...