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...quietly dickering with the Communists, its bellicose pronouncements in Washington, in Korea, and in Lake Success will do little to improve its bargaining position and have already caused considerable damage. President Truman's offhand comment on the atomic bomb put our European allies in a terrible fright, while MacArthur's communiques have compromised Western unity. It will take us a while yet to develop our "big stick"; the least we can do in the meantime is to walk more softly...
...motorbike along the shores of a lake in the Inverness Highlands on a moonlit winter night in 1934 when he saw the beast. "I was almost on it," said Arthur Grant later, "when a small head on a long neck turned in my direction, and the object, taking fright, made two great bounds, crossed the road and plunged into the lake...
...backing of all important parties except the Communists. But financing it, even with a whopping U.S. handout (see INTERNATIONAL), made fiscal changes imperative. New taxes seemed necessary, including heavier, more equitably distributed levies on corporations and farmers. With parliamentary elections a few months off, the Assembly balked in political fright...
...years, educators have been trying to take the fear and fright out of U.S. schoolrooms by making things cheerful for the children: no more birch rods, no more dunce caps, an "understanding" attitude toward all concerned. By all accounts, children have never had it better. But what about the teachers...
...when he played the organ for morning chapel and also gave him lessons. Upon his sudden death Thompson had to take over the job of playing the organ for chapel. "I was scared every morning, but the repetition eventually cured me and I haven't had stage fright since," he recalls, "not even at my first class at Wellesley...