Word: fright
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...Wickford, England, John Andrew put an electric bulb on the seat of a chair, sat in the chair, died of fright when the bulb exploded with a loud...
...connoisseur of the gestures of politicians, President Hoover took sudden and inexplicable fright at this mounting stack of legislation in the House which, if really enacted, would certainly have emptied the Treasury. A White House breakfast was called, with House and Senate Republican leaders and Treasury officials in attendance. Alarm was felt. The President was told, falsely or otherwise, that the pressure behind all these bills was inordinate, that something would have to be done to check the drive on the Treasury...
...York. Today the father of pink-and-white is the Conservative party's spearhead in debate, scathing, reckless, romantic Winston Churchill, last year Chancellor of the Exchequer. And all are, of course, descendants of that ruthless and super-successful general, John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough. Stage-fright might well grip anyone expected to get up and talk like either Lord Randolph or "Winnie," but the boy seemed only a little nervous, launched boldly into a slashing philippic against the Labor Government's "weak" policy in Egypt (TIME...
...teach to his small boys. Consequently when he fell in love with the mistress of the politician Castel-Benac, she easily persuaded M. Topaze to become that scoundrel's unconscious tool. And even when M. Topaze learned the truth and spent his days quivering with remorse and fright, and disguising his voice over the telephone, he still kept his position out of his love for the siren...
...soon, just around the corner on Third Avenue from the first green-fronted store, a second: The Wholesome Products Co., malt & hops, imported cordials and glassware. This too was guarded by the Supreme Protective System, but the clerk, a mere youth, appeared to be in a state of chronic fright...