Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only a world power but a great world power, able to defend its interests and deter war anywhere. He did it to show the people of the U.S. that from then on out the U.S. was part of the world. Around a narrowing world fraught with fear of a world war the 16 U.S. battleships steamed, all painted gleaming white, making good-will stopovers at such places as Japan and Australia, keeping up with target practice at sea, losing not a vessel from mechanical failure, missing not one planned landfall. The Great White Fleet was the unmistakable American word...
Away from the Ring. At week's end Félix Gaillard's government made a first gesture toward conciliation. Though it refused to match Bourguiba's offer to accept U.S. mediation-this, the French fear, would open the way to international "interference" in the Algerian rebellion-the Gaillard government announced that it was now willing to accept "the good offices" of the U.S. in settling the dispute. Even more important psychologically, Gaillard and his Cabinet tacitly admitted France's guilt at Sakiet-Sidi-Youssef by offering to pay damages to civilian victims of the bombing...
...large assortment of strange hats. But his burdens were often heavy. Once a graduate student came to him and tearfully blurted that he had incurable cancer. It was Uncle Sid who taught the boy to live out the less than two years left to him fully and without fear...
...Kennedy Bill, which would correct many of the short-comings of present unemployment compensation programs, should be adopted. With an Administration unwilling to poke its nose too far into the economy for fear of smelling something unpleasant, effective and automatic stabilizers might well exceed the value of Eisenhower's economic acrobatics...
Wilson noted that those wishing to evade the law could simply require interviews. The law in "undemocratic," he remarked, in that it assumes the existence of prejudice and makes students fear their backgrounds will be held against them...