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SECRETARY OF STATE Alexander M. Haig Jr.'s recent behavior is indeed reprehensible, his military power grabbing sensibility frightful.
Brooke's likability is worth emphasizing because her mother has molded her life from the beginning in ways that seem frightful when retold. Teri, 47, was divorced from Frank Shields, 39, now a vice president of a New York executive head-hunting firm, after five months of marriage. She...
The Harold Wrights are too enlightened to feel superstitious about their new lodgings, but not all of the guests for their first house party are so sure. The weekend winds down as a frightful comedy.
"Life in the wartime Federal City peaked to a 'mad, wild, hellish' intensity. Tides of office seekers, profiteers and promoters, voyeurs, zealots, do-gooders, quacks, religious enthusiasts, prostitutes, grieving wives and relatives, swindlers, scamperers from ruined reputations and sinking ships drove up the price of food and drink...
Because the policy will cause "frightful instability in case of a general political crisis," Kistiakowsky said, it will create an atmosphere where leaders might "jump the gun."