Word: fright
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...eventually lead to "epidemic cancerous manifestations." Some researchers believe that increasing use of additives in the U.S. may be responsible for 5% to 10% of the nation's overall cancer increase in recent years. Says Dr. Wilhelm Hueper of U.S. National Cancer Institute: "Some people got into a fright when they first heard about bacteria or viruses, and for a time would not even shake hands for fear of infection. People came to accept the presence of dangerous micro-organisms in our environments while scientists did everything possible to lessen the danger. Now people must learn to live with...
When you're alone in the middle of the night and you wake in a sweat and a hell of a fright When you're alone in the middle of the bed and you wake like someone hit you on the head You've had a cream of a nightmare dream and you've got the hoo-ha's coming to you . . . And perhaps you're alive And perhaps you're dead...
...good Joe at heart, but then nobody can quite reach his heart. In a brilliant piece of character-writing, Scriptwriter Robert Lewin explains his man. When the sergeant was a boy, his father died of drink; the boy's feelings, already numb with shame, were frozen fast with fright when his guardian, a religious fanatic, told him that his father had gone to the Devil, and that there, but for the grace of God, he would...
Rich, bighearted, wackish Uncle Daniel Ponder has. among other benefactions, married a pretty little birdbrain (Sarah Marshall) and brought her-with her love of household gadgets-to a house without electricity, where she dies, at length, of fright during a thunderstorm. Prodded by an ambitious lawyer, her back-country kin charge Uncle Daniel with murdering her. The trial-of a modern-day Uncle Toby-calls to mind the trials in Pickwick and Alice in Wonderland. With cousins on the jury, kids overrunning the witness box, refreshments being served, Uncle Daniel first disappearing and then hiring the prosecution lawyer to handle...
First day on the set, Bill was pale with fright-and exhaustion. What with violin and boxing lessons, he was working 17 hours a day. To calm his fears he called his mother as many as five times a day, and to conceal them he began to give veteran Mamoulian a little friendly guidance on how the show should be done. He almost got fired. Suddenly he had a two-day nervous collapse. Barbara Stanwyck, the star, came to his rescue. Every night, no matter how hard the day's work, she gave him a private rehearsal...