Word: fears
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Some of these schemes had no hope of adoption; others had little short-run relevance to the political ferment in the Middle East. ("When the principal personalities in a government are living in daily fear of murder and assassination," noted Secretary of State Dulles last week, "it is very hard to get their minds onto a program of economic development.") But, whether a summit meeting might do more than register familiar attitudes depended on how much either Khrushchev or Nasser really worried that the Middle East might get out of hand, and how willing they would be to treat specific...
After dinner at the Carlton Gardens residence of British Host Selwyn Lloyd, they told Dulles that they would have to go home this time with stronger proof of U.S. solidarity. Even when Dulles said, "The nations here do not have to have any fear whatsoever that the U.S., even at great risk, would not maintain the integrity of our friends," the Mideast diplomats were unappeased. Next day, passing up the buffet lunch, Dulles drafted a few sentences and cleared them in two fast telephone calls to President Eisenhower...
...judge the reality or nonreality of UFOs (unidentified flying objects). He thinks that something is being seen, including refraction effects, but his interest is in the fantastic, quasi-religious cult that has grown around the UFOs. This cult, he thinks, "may be a spontaneous reaction of the subconscious to fear of the apparently insoluble political situation in the world that may lead at any moment to catastrophe. At such times eyes turn heavenwards in search of help, and miraculous forebodings of a threatening or consoling nature appear from on high...
...been taken as an aide by General Cummings (Raymond Massey) during the invasion of a Pacific island. The general coddles Hearn as he would a favorite son-and tries to sting home his belief that power is everything, that the way to achieve power is by instilling fear. "I make [a soldier] more afraid of me than he is of the enemy," he boasts. "It makes him fight a little harder...
...realities of Franco's rule are presented: the steel-hard Guardia Civil, whose men garrison each small town; the squirmings of a dictator who is afraid to travel an announced route for fear of assassination; the indoctrination of the students. But for most of the villagers, gaiety and great pride overcome grimness. Author Deane is aware that there are lessons to be learned, as well as taught in Andalusia. One lesson well learned: the author's three-year-old son can handle a one-glass-a-day wine ration handily, unless someone feeds him sugar cane. When someone...