Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...chance to strike came on the night of last July 13. Kassem's 19th and Aref's 20th brigades received orders to move through Baghdad on their way to friendly Jordan, then beset by fear of revolt within its own borders. Following Kassem's plan, Aref's men instead rolled into Baghdad at 4:30 a.m., seized the radio station, pulled all switches at the telephone exchange, and, lobbing a mortar shell through a back wall of the royal palace, mowed down the King and members of the royal household as they stumbled in confusion...
...crew except a navigator bailed out-and the navigator dying of hypoxia-Mathews was embarrassingly frightened. He was a phrenetic caricature of the real-life lieutenant, the professional flyer who said when he got home, "You're so numb, I don't think there's any fear at all. You're just numb...
...developed, the outraged party was not Macmillan, but Gaitskell himself. Cried he: "This is the grossest travesty of what I said in endeavoring to explain to him-not, I fear, with much success-how our party system differed from the American." After some coaching by his editors, Buchwald grudgingly apologized: "I am sorry that anything I have written should have given offense to Gaitskell, for whom I formed a high regard. I was writing as a columnist and not as a political commentator. I did not think for one moment that anyone would take the article literally." But to inquiring...
...Because," he answers, "God believes it will be demonstrated that Job loves and fears God because He is God and not because Job is prosperous . . . that Job will still love God and fear him in adversity, in misfortune, in the worst of misfortunes-in spite of everything . . . Which means that in the conflict between God and Satan, in the struggle between good and evil. God stakes his supremacy as God upon man's fortitude and love. Which means, again, that where the nature of man is in question . . . God has need...
While the City stated that it acted out of good feeling toward the forty-two and the University, there has been considerable sentiment among Yale undergraduates that the city actually acted from fear that charges of provocation and brutality would be brought against the New Haven police...