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During the Cold War, it was feared that a presidential assassination might set off a nuclear exchange, so by protecting the president, the Secret Service was, at least arguably, protecting us all.
As Leonard Cole, author of The Eleventh Plague , has observed, Saddam Hussein refrained from using his vast chemical stockpile during the Persian Gulf War not because he feared retaliation in kind , but because he feared retaliation of comparable, or greater, magnitude . (Gen.
To the Berbers’ amazement the tables were turned, and it wasn’t long before the Ibicencos were boarding the enemy’s brigantines on the open seas and “liberating” the pirates’ booty — even that of the greatly feared “Pope” (see box).
Johnson believed that ugly , which was sometimes spelled oughly , derived from ouph , a variant of elf . Modern experts are satisfied that it grew from Old Norse uggligr `to be feared or dreaded.
Furthermore, Gruss released a legal opinion in March that advised how an ERC need not be an executive agency of the Commission, as many scientists had feared it would have to be under the terms of the EU Treaty, but could be established as an independent and autonomous body.