Word: fright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...victory General Fu took up his brush and addressed a plea to Communist Party chairman Mao Tse-tung: "The battle has taken the lives of at least 20,000 of your troops. We have buried them and wept over them. How sorrowful was the picture as they fled in fright, bleeding and falling by the roadside. I could not but press my heart and ask: who has killed these...
Last week Ben visited Dr. W. R. Wooldridge, one of Britain's topflight veterinarians. On Dr. Wooldridge's Middlesex lawn, Ben got stage fright and suffered a fit of barking. Later he regained his composure, said slowly and distinctly: "I want...
...empty little church around the corner from Broadway got a new congregation last week: 415 prewar show people. All had come home from the wars with stage fright. To help them over it, the American Theater Wing, which ran the Stage Door Canteen, had rented the church, set up a theater school for ex-servicemen & women-professional show people only...
Ordinarily most members of Congress-particularly Senators-are not oversensitive to letter pressure.* They well knew that President Truman had incited much of this tide of jeers by his bold veto ramble and by his radio talk to the people. But the deep general fright over the rising cost of living showed through these letters. Many a Congressman caught the inflation jitters, took a long second thought...
Markets at Work. As the week of uncertainties "wore on, many a citizen got over his first fright of rocketing prices. By the end of the long Independence Day holiday most people felt somewhat better. The big blow they had expected had not hit. The nation's economy had not been shaken to its roots; it had hardly been shaken at all. The dollar had not gone to pot.* No panicky buying had developed at any market level...