Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Choice. In Montreal, Truck Driver Armand Lafleur testified that he had been offered $700 to run over somebody, but had refused for fear of losing his driver's license...
Behind State's decision was a fear that many Europeans, unfamiliar with U.S. politics, might interpret Congressman Isacson's presence in Paris as official congressional and administrative blessing upon conference doings. Communists undoubtedly would do their best to give Isacson's visit that appearance. Editorialized the New York Times: "No citizen is entitled to go abroad to oppose the policies and interests of his country. . .. The State Department acted wisely...
Birkhead named the Hearst-McCormick-Patterson press as part of "powerful financial interests" giving impetus and support to groups professing racist theories. "Our greatest danger," he said "is that, because of our fear of communism," we may fall into the arms of those men who supposedly "will save us from...
White outlined the development of group prejudices, asserting that "in creasing neuroticism because of fear of war and instability" resulted in popular consumption of racist theories. We are at odds with Russia today, he continued, because "neither of us had the intelligence to control our prejudices...
Though the subject that concerned her had no limits, she had. Although she was always troubled by the fear of madness (it led her to commit suicide), she never felt at home with the writers of despair or abnormality...