Word: fright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...half hours later, a 31-year-old Pennsylvania airport manager named George Humphrey got the fright of his life as he putted along near Fort Dix, N.J. in a Piper Super-Cruiser. A Navy F6F Hellcat fighter came unexpectedly up beneath him and shot out ahead of his plane, giving him "a terrific prop wash...
Boudreau says flatly that Ike is one of the two best rookies he has seen come up to the Indians since he became manager in 1942. The other is swarthy Mike Garcia, a husky 200-lb. pitcher of Mexican parentage, who went sleepless all night with stage fright before pitching and winning his first major-league game, in April. Since then, Mike has won 6, lost...
...sorry to see the end of a 10 to 2 workday. Some are intense individuals who strove joyfully for four years in a fascinating welter of ideas and knowledge. Most are probably a mixture of both types. All, it is safe to say, are a little touched by stage fright and resignation. The College is behind them. The world is closing...
...fright is also confined in varying degrees to specific departments, mainly among the sciences. Some of the more independent segments of Yale, such as the law and medical schools, are not even worried...
Peace Without Practice. Finally, after more than 50 years, Harold Bauer did give it all up. "Peace," he wrote, "is over my soul... I am never going to practice the piano any more . . . Gone [are] the qualms of stage fright . . . the tedium of travel . . the hideous fatigue of submitting to journalistic interviews . . . the resentment against the critics...