Word: frightens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Like Vishinsky." What did come out of the convention was a furious reviling of U.S. aims in the world. Samples of the U.E.'s Red-eyed views: "The Government . . . has fallen under the control of Big Business. . . . By international Redbaiting and war scares they try to frighten us into patience under their extortionate greed. ... [It is] the policy of the trusts to re-establish a reactionary Germany as economic dictator over Europe. We declare to the people of the world that we will not . . . burn them alive with atom bombs to enforce the re-establishment of international monopolies...
Janus the Owl. In Decatur, Ill., the Starling Pest Control Co. was selling an odd item-a two-faced aluminum bird. The price: $10. The company said that when placed in trees or on buildings, its metal owls would frighten pestiferous starlings away. It boasted that an owl placed every half-block was enough...
Calm in Washington. This desperate Chinese reaction could scarcely be blamed, nor could it be discounted merely as a maneuver to frighten the U.S. into giving China more aid. But official Washington preserved a stolid calm. One key official at the State Department dismissed the news as unimportant, conceding only that it had raised a few hackles here & there. Said he in a tone that would scarcely have been used by Britons at their hoitiest and toitiest in dealing with "natives": "Perhaps the Chinese have been a shade more independent recently, as if they wanted to show that China...
...ducks do not have much sense, a dog's bark or a floating feather may scare them into piling up in great heaps in which the bottom ducks smother. Sometimes dive-bombing seagulls frighten them into drowning. Diseases may wipe out whole hatches. Yet when the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association recently hired a retired physician to conduct research into cures, he had difficulty getting information from tight-lipped quack farmers. During the prosperous war years, duck farmers netted anywhere from $7,000 to $50,000 a year-thanks partially to the 90? a pound they...
...industry. Most studios were in the best financial position they had ever known. Last year they showed a total net profit of $125 million. This year, if box office held only "sensational," they might do $100 million. And by turning choosy again, U.S. moviegoers stood to gain. They would frighten Hollywood into making better pictures...