Word: fright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Chair. In Middleboro, Mass., 14-year-old Wayne Thomas went to the dentist for an extraction, sat down in the chair, died of fright...
...Indian neighbors, the Lacandones seldom fight, almost never commit murder. They moan and chant, burn incense of copal and rubber at the altars of jungle-grown Mayan cities 1,500 years old. In a cave near a blue, sacred lake lives an evil minor god. Two Lacandones, sick with fright, guided Miss Duby there. In the cave was an ancient stone idol; on the entrance were carved hieroglyphics. The last of the Mayans begged her to read them, but she could...
Pressure Within. Fright is not enough to break the German hold on Bulgaria. If anything, the Germans have recently tightened their grip. But, unable to throw out the Nazis immediately, Bulgarians can and do look around for a future exit from...
...Movimiento Nacional Revolucionario) came into pow er in Bolivia. The rebels dashed about in Lend-Lease jeeps, invaded the homes of Government leaders and dragged them off to prison. Pro-U.S. President Enrique Peñaranda was later exiled to Chile. His 80-year-old mother died of fright. Two of Bolivia's three great tin barons, Mauricio Hochschild and Carlos Victor Aramayo, went into hiding. The greatest, Simon I. Patino, was safe in the Waldorf Astoria hotel in New York, where he refused to answer the telephone...
...give Tokyo a fright. Tokyo did indeed broadcast to its people a warning that "the enemy could have raided the mainland if he had wanted...