Word: unafraid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Afraid? Were the graduate veterans worried about the problems of the Atomic Age? Ed Prizer, who flew 103 combat missions as a Spitfire pilot in the R.C.A.F., returned to graduate from the University of Southern California, wrote a half-page valedictory for U.S.C.'s Alumni Review: "We Are Unafraid." Excerpts: "This year there are some seniors who are afraid to graduate ... to face the Atomic Age. . . . Those of us who do not fear graduation are unafraid because we know we hold the key to the future. ... We value faith...
...five years France had not heard the rasping, unafraid voice of Georges Mandel, the slight, sallow man who was born Jeroboam Rothschild, brought up as Clemenceau's child, and had been the Third Republic's last Minister of the Interior. He had fled to Morocco after the 1940 debacle. He would rouse the Empire, he cried, to fight on. Vichy and the Gestapo nabbed and jailed him, buried him in silence. Last July, on a bypath of Fontainebleau Forest, militia of Vichy's Joseph Darnand rubbed him out in gangster style...
...last week Georges Mandel spoke to France again, as rasping and unafraid as ever. On his bullet-ridden corpse had been found a packet of penciled paper scraps and a tiny notebook. Overlooked by the assassins, the scraps were saved by a loyal official, handed over to Mandel's devoted mistress, blond, Junoesque Madame Beatrice Bretty of the Comédie Française. Now, with Madame Bretty's permission, they were published in Mandel's old paper, the Rightist L'Ordre...
...mouth had the city anything from pock-marked to a smoking ruin. BBC wheeled a sound truck into Liverpool, got inhabitants to talk into the microphone, recorded the sounds of traffic, of reconstruction, of life going on. The broadcast recording made it clear that Liverpool was unbroken and unafraid...
...goes much further. Psychoneurotics who have never heard a shot fired in anger are now being discharged from the Army (current strength: 5,500,000) at the rate of 1,000 a week. The Army's explanations: 1) lack of emotional elasticity in men who want to be unafraid but are driven to nervous crack-ups by uncontrollable subconscious fear; 2) soldiers' anxiety about their families; 3) their lack of ability to adjust themselves to Army regimentation; 4) inability to stand the physical rigors of military life...