Word: feare
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...becoming increasingly clear that peace by fear has no higher or more enduring quality than peace by the sword...
...Three fear-crazed salesgirls stared dumbly at their personnel manager. They could not understand at first that he was saying their only chance for life was to wrap the blankets around their heads, dash downstairs through the flames. He was seen to offer to lead the way. The three salesgirls took the blankets and followed for a short distance, then their nerves cracked. Although brave Louis Frichet kept pleading with them and trying to hold them back, all three salesgirls finally, rather than face the flames, leaped off the roof to death. Alone with his blanket, the personnel manager began...
Only mildly sensational among these Cabinet shifts made as the Prime Minister prepared to go before the reassembled House of Commons this week, was the giving of a post to "Ruthless" Sir John Anderson who, when Governor of Bengal, put the fear of the Raj into its notorious political thugs and terrorists. Drastic Sir John was given a velvet Cabinet sinecure, Lord Privy Seal, but is supposed to have been put in to ginger up, by his personal influence, Sir Thomas Inskip. the somnolent Minister for the Co-Ordination of Defense...
...Fall of the City, the tyrant that is expected from across the border is ''not the usual enemy! . . . This one conquers other things than countries." And, as in The Fall of the City the people were paralyzed by fear of the tyrant and by uncertainty, in Air Raid the women's doom is their paralyzing disbelief in the tyrant's inhumanity...
...about Confederate naval policy. It scarcely helped the South, did not greatly injure the North in a military sense. But it ruined the U. S. merchant marine. Rebel raiders and privateers sank or destroyed 200 ships worth $30,000,000. Since merchants would not ship in Northern vessels for fear of raiders, almost the entire fleet, totaling 6,000,000 tons, was sold to English interests for the bargain price of $42,000,000, leaving the U. S. at the end of the Civil War with only 1,000,000 tons, largely obsolete...