Word: fright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...young polio* got the fright of his life as he crept up on the dozing Prime Minister (believing him to be tweakable Doc Mclntire) prepared to tweak his stomach, caught himself just in time...
Suddenly MGM took fright. The studio became acutely aware that their most valuable property was in danger of becoming tagged as a pinchbeck, cocksure, juvenile Don Juan...
...alluring than anywhere else on the continent. But none of the hot blood of Charleston and New Orleans flowed in the veins of Thomas Jefferson, for he was above all a child of the Age of Reason. Reason was not his God, even though many New England families, in fright at his election as President, hid away their Bibles. To Jefferson reason was the greatest gift of God, the one to be cherished above all others. And still he had a genius--perhaps he drew it from the very air of Monticello--which made him truly representative of the whole...
...Fronts? Thus Europe's chill winds seemed to blow war nearer on three fronts. The Balkans appeared, in spite of their fright, to have some guarantee of peace in Germany's desire to keep Rumania at peace and Russia's preoccupation in the north. In fact, the crisis on the three fronts interlocked, for if the war in the north is kept limited, Russia may feel free to attack the Balkans. In reverse, if Norway and Sweden are drawn into war with Russia, thereby cutting off Germany's much-needed supplies, Germany might feel forced...