Sentence:  We will recall that the still confident liberals of the Truman administration gathered with other Western utopians in San Francisco to set up the legal framework , finally and at last , to rationalize war - to rationalize want and <WSD>fear</WSD> - out of the world : the United Nations . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an emotion experienced in anticipation of some specific pain or danger (usually accompanied by a desire to flee or fight)