Word: fright
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...warmth of the Japanese reception was too much for four-year-old Mickey Driver. He stiffened with fright when one of the kimonoed women picked him up, recovered when his father, Commander Orvil Driver, told him to "Shake hands with the nice Japanese lady...
Some of the contestants went out on words they obviously knew, because of stage fright (one girl tripped on across). Indianapolis' entry, twelve-year-old William Frazer, wore a red-plaid "lucky" shirt, its pockets overflowing with rabbits' feet and four-leaf clovers. (He went out on mendacious.) The audience's obvious favorite was Mattie Lou Pollard, 13, who goes to a one-room schoolhouse in Thomaston, Ga. and has had only one teacher all her life. (She lost on anarchy.) Third-place winner, Leslie Dean, 12, of Hawthorne, N.J., flunked on asceticism. Other toughies: hypotenuse, covenants...
...room to meet her war-returning husband, the wife (Anabel Shaw) overhears a violent quarrel between two strangers. She also sees, through an open window, its brutal & bloody consequences. When the husband (Frank Latimore) finally arrives, full of love and yearning, he finds his wife rigid and popeyed from fright. Unable to talk, unable to move, she is obviously a serious mental case, an ideal subject for Eminent Psychiatrist Vincent Price, who soon bustles up, brisk and professional...
Local Negroes rallied, too, instead of fleeing homeward in the usual pattern of fright. In Mink Slide, a rickety Negro business district, they gathered...
...fountains so that they drowned; getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning; bears and cougars; syphilitic Indians; drunken Indians who once paid her a threatening visit when she was alone at night; Author MacDonald got rid of them by grabbing a gun and shouting in her fright: "Shi'll oot!" [I'll shoot! ] which she thinks must be Indian...