Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...almost as many Italians (1,095,000) as Rome. It has 412,000 Poles, 57,000 Czechs, 54,000 Norwegians, 53,000 Greeks. Half a million Negroes are jammed into New York, alongside almost a quarter-million Puerto Ricans. Mayor O'Dwyer can never be free of the fear of a bloody riot in Harlem. He has other enormous responsibilities. He is the commander of a sizable army-19,000 policemen, 11,000 firemen, 120,000 other municipal employees...
...Nineties feathers, who delivered dire predictions ("Slump and boom, slump and boom, is the rhythm of your doom"). There was also "Black Market" in a Piccadilly zoot suit; he offered his wares "out o' patriotism so as ter keep the owld country goin'," Central character was "Fear" (entwined from head to toe by a prop serpent), who declaimed: "Of all lands, my favorite and pet is England, blitzed and starving and in debt...
...must not make bogy-men of the Communists in this country. It is not the Communists themselves that we in this country should fear, for they are no more than 100,000 in number. All we need fear is our susceptibility to their propaganda...
...Employers in Fear." Day after day, Clement Attlee sat slouched on his spine, taking in five-minute speeches from scores of delegates, speeches for the most part well organized, lucid and obviously sincere. Behind him on the platform sat Mrs. Attlee, knitting. She likes short speeches, even when her husband makes them. Sir Stafford Cripps, whom some call an economic dictator, sat modestly behind a row of executive committee members-he is not a member of the executive-and was not invited to speak. Nor did he ask to take part...
That the essays would be better than those composed under the exam stress is certainly true, but every student would have the same chance at improvement. And let no one fear that such essays would allow anyone to escape without doing the reading: a good paper would require as much work as does a good examination. The student's thinking processes would certainly be stimulated more often during a term than most men's are under the examination system. And the more frequent the thought, the less superficial his knowledge of the course...