Word: fright
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...death." But they had little idea just how it might come about, i.e., how the emotion of fear could make the heart stop beating-victims of heart trouble are not likely to be sitting in a doctor's office having an electrocardiogram taken when they suffer a fatal fright. Now some of the missing evidence...
...abilities. Critic Dorothy Parker helped brush Kate off the stage with the withering comment: "She ran the gamut of emotions from A to B.'' Producer Joseph Verner Reed thought she might be better at high hurdles than at acting. Playwright Benn Levy said flatly: "She looks a fright, her manner is objectionable, and she has no talent...
...spring, there is usually an upsurge in business. But last week, after two months of softening prices and sliding retail sales, businessmen were still waiting for the upturn. The whole economy seemed poised on such hairspring scales that businessmen took courage, or fright, from every vagrant sign. The stock market was a perfect example...
...Fright & Anger. When the flames were finally out, five were dead-the pilot, copilot, two men smashed in the crumpled houses and a police inspector whose automobile was crushed, half a block away, by a flying piece of wreckage. Ten people had to be hospitalized. Dozens of others nursed minor burns and wounds. Five houses were wrecked. Two dozen automobiles were damaged...
...York reacted with fright and anger. Ever since Newark Airport was closed last Feb. 11, as the result of three crashes which killed a total of 119 people, Idlewild and La Guardia Airports had been forced to handle all air traffic for greater New York. At week's end, some New Yorkers began demanding that Idlewild and La Guardia be shut down...