Word: fright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...true that Indianapolis has been "frightened" during this crime wave, but there appears to be no further occasion for fright, and we think a very good job of police work has been done to meet an ugly situation, which, by the way, is not peculiar to Indianapolis...
Maybe it was the glass backboards. Maybe it was stage fright. At any rate, the Varsity played like a pick-up unit last night at the Garden when it took a 52 to 36 spanking from an aggressive Boston University quintet before a crowd of 7500. Halftime score...
...demands of her role as First Lady ever give her stage fright? A. No comment...
...Date. What caused some fright were the high prices and predictions of still higher prices to come. (General Motors' President C. E. Wilson said that next year's G.M. cars may cost up to 5% more than this year's.) Well aware that higher prices would nip buying power, 75 of 100 economists polled by the F. W. Dodge Corp. set a new date for a "mild recession"; it would begin next spring...
...fright and suspense of the closing sequences depend largely on the conception of the pathological Udo and on Richard Widmark's remarkable performance of the role. He is a rather frail fellow with maniacal eyes, who uses a sinister kind of falsetto baby talk laced with tittering laughs. It is clear that murder is one of the kindest things he is capable...