Word: frightfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Died. King Boris of Bulgaria, 49, Hitler's puppet; of a bullet wound, heart trouble or fright...
Boongs, some of whom speak fair mission English, are almost invariably friendly to white men, but take a low view of the Japanese. Their standard appraisal: "Jap, him all along bad fella." This attitude, plus the pidgin English system of communication, brought both fright and embarrassment to a U.S. fighter pilot who had a forced landing. Two naked black men with rifles popped up, disarmed him and made signs for him to put his hands up. Stepping back, the pilot tapped his chest impressively and said: "Me American!" Replied one of the Abos: "Well, why didn...
...creek, up a slope and over another hill. All along the length of this ribbon there is now a thin line of men. For four days and nights they have fought hard, eaten little, washed none, and slept hardly at all. Their nights have been violent with attack, fright, butchery, and their days sleepless and miserable with the crash of artillery...
From Italy onetime Metropolitan Opera Tenor Tito Schipa, 53, arrived suddenly in Lisbon. He explained: "Only those who have experienced the sensation of stage fright can judge how one feels when bombs are exploding just a little...
...with every other shortage, the civilian will sooner or later pay for his greed. Just when cotton goods rationing will come depends on whether the U.S. civilian from now on buys from need or from fright. But the best bet is that fright-buying has already gone so far that rationing will come by next fall, even if hoarding stops...