Word: fright
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...school, Held drove home and invaded the house of Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Quiggle across the street. The Quiggles were still asleep in bed. Held's shots killed Quiggle instantly and critically wounded Mrs. Quiggle while their four-year-old daughter cowered under her own bed in fright. Helping himself to more ammunition and a rifle, Held went home...
...melodramatic tone never disappears from Baird's harsh complaints, but it is understandable. This time he might really get thrown to the wolves. So he is scared of the ten year jail sentence, of course, but you can also sense an extra measure of fright and incredulity in his voice, because to his mind, at least, nobody is even watching...
...most important result of this meeting, from the students' point of view, was the "frightening" nature of William Bundy's view of Southeast Asia. Their fright stemmed from two of his stands: his view that a military solution will be achieved within three years and his emphasis on the importance of the war in the future of Southeast Asia...
...ambulance that carried you away you were spading your heart fell open I was playing with your boys what could we do with our fright the ambulance is taking us all the wrong way down the innerbelt hospitals traffic more parking lots...
Hope does his best to get something risible visible, but halfway through he drowns in second banana oil. Winters' country-cozen dialect is familiar, and Phyllis Diller attacks her customary fright-wig role with the comic appeal of a black-widow spider putting away a fly. The kids are selfconscious, lending the film the aura of a mass-produced TV situation comedy. All that is missing is the commercials-and the energetic plugs for name-brand cereals and soaps more than compensate...