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...with a yelp of joy, only to riddle him with bullets: a girl embraces a long lost cousin in black shirt, but her husband pushes her aside with a rifle; both sides tending to their wounded, inadvertently borrow each other's water bottles, and Cecilia's eyes, widening in fright, transform the sorry spectacle into a fantastic combat of gladiators...
...worst unemployment since the Great Depression (12 million jobless) as well as budget deficits that may reach an unprecedented $180 billion in fiscal 1983. High unemployment plagued Western Europe as well, and the multibillion-dollar debts of more than two dozen nations gave international financiers a severe fright. It was also a year in which the first artificial heart began pumping life inside a dying man's chest, a year in which millions cheered the birth of cherubic Prince William Arthur Philip Louis of Britain, and millions more rooted for a wrinkled, turtle-like figure struggling to find...
THERE WAS a fright row down by the river all day yesterday, as the Head of the Charles Regatta Spanish through Cambridge for its 18th year, It was an occasion for revelry and rivalry--more than 100,000 fans watched in 720 shells and sculls were propelled with varying degree of efficiency up and down the Churies (See stories pages...
...seems so long ago. But if you think very hard you might remember multi-hour gas lines, odd and even days, and perhaps a siphon burn or two. Those were just a few of the facts of life of the mid-1970s oil crust that gave a real fright to Americans, forcing them to insulate their homes, sell their Cadillacs and pay attention to a faraway group of Arab nations...
...Charles Brantigan's prescription of the hypertension drug propranolol as a preventive for stage fright [July 5] is yet another example of ho w our society turns to sedatives both legal and illegal in order to cope with stressful situations. If something makes you that damn nervous...