Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hopes to dramatize the decision made in his recent Washington conference with Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan to weld NATO into a new unity, not just of arms and armies, but of all Western moral and material resources. One reservation in Washington's planning: the fear that too much emphasis on a Washington-London axis might distract the sessions from their urgent, NATO-wide purpose...
...forth between French and Moroccan lines smuggling arms and revolutionary tracts beneath their flowing djellabahs. Thirteen-year-old girls signed up in clandestine cells of the Istiqlal Party. And in a Moroccan version of Lysistrata, thousands of Moroccan women denied themselves to their husbands for two years for fear of bringing into the world children born under the shameful reign of the Sultan's French-appointed successor, Ben Moulay Arafa...
...however rapid one might want it to be, must not be a brutal surgical operation, a rupture with the past. The emancipation of woman must be done by her consent, not by her submission." Aiming for that middle way, Aisha and her co-feminists are pushing adult education. "We fear the development of conflict between mother and daughter if the daughter faces West and the mother faces toward the old way of life," explains one, citing the Arab proverb: "Educate a man, and you educate a single individual. Educate a woman, and you educate a family...
...course the Roman Catholic religion still exists, but there has been very little further development of dogma within it since the Reformation . . . Most of its believers go to Confession as a way of easing their consciences without seriously changing their lives, and to Mass out of fear...
...novelist, a goateed gibe-jabber who characterized much modern verse as talk that "nonsense is truth, truth nonsense"; in Dublin. A towering (6 ft. 4 in.) athlete, Lord Dunsany fought in, the Boer War and World War I ("Our trenches were only six feet deep; I shall never fear publicity again...