Word: fears
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Even Dewey's campaigners were willing to admit that a MacArthur victory seemed in the cards. But that could always be explained away as local loyalty to a favorite son. What really worried Tom Dewey was the fear of running behind Harold Stassen, a defeat that would seriously cripple his whole campaign for the nomination. If he was going to do anything about it, there was no time to lose...
...Communism, which is another of our latter-day religions, is, I think, a leaf taken from the book of Christianity-a leaf torn out and misread. Democracy is another leaf from the book of Christianity, which has also, I fear, been torn out and, while perhaps not misread, has certainly been half emptied of meaning by being divorced from its Christian context and secularized; and we have obviously ... been living on spiritual capital, I mean clinging to Christian practice without possessing the Christian belief...
Christianity's mission is "not to fear the social movement in the world, not to struggle purposelessly against it, but to spiritualize it and to try to cure it from the poison that has been mixed with it, the poison of hate...
Funk Money. Worried by the flood of "funk money" (i.e., fear money) flowing from Britain and other sterling areas (one recent report listed $270,000,000 in foreign bills discounted), South Africa clamped down. The government ordered commercial banks to refuse all large deposits from overseas unless the money was for investment in South Africa...
...Coupled with this desire to be loved is a strong fear of rejection, of being treated as unworthy of love; and one technique of dealing with this fear is to anticipate it, by rejecting before one is rejected." The other side of the fear of being rejected is "the fear of being exploited, of being made a sucker of, of not being truly loved for oneself alone but only for what one provides." This, says Author Gorer, is the meanest and one of the most prevalent of American fears. The generosity of Americans, great and ungrudging...