Word: frightfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pneumonitis, unlike the similar "true influenza" of 1918, is deadly in only a few isolated cases, Bock added, it is a very unpleasant thing to have, and it can be avoided. Students should live wisely, he said, avoid the sudden changes in temperature, such as the trip from the "fright Stadium to the warmth of a room flowing with cocktails" which so many students made last Saturday...
Panic in Vichy. Fright seemed plainest of all among the Vichy cabal of royalists, fascists and opportunists. They had placed their bets on Adolf Hitler as the architect of Europe's future. They had tried at one & the same time to placate Hitler and grab as much of France as possible for themselves. In this bargaining game they had sold out the French people by all manner of internal concessions, by making cargo shipments to the Axis in Libya, admitting German "technicians and importers" to Africa, deporting French workers and Jewish refugees to Germany, libeling Third Republican leaders...
...cheerfully, year in & out, recitalists plunk down their hard-earned cash, practice themselves into a lather, suffer stage fright and accept their inevitable financial trimmings with a smile. Some are music teachers or locally famous virtuosos, in small U.S. cities, who hope to take home a batch of favorable press clippings. Some are second-rank European artists who hope to enter the U.S. concert world by Manhattan's tricky revolving door. Some, like Clarinetist Benny Goodman, Cinemactress Jeanette MacDonald, Radio Singer Lanny Ross, are successful popular artists who cannot resist a yen to compete in the long-hair trade...
Antidote to Weariness. Lieut. General Joseph W. Stilwell, commander of all U.S. forces in China, did not release all the details of their raids. But the Chinese at last had something to beam about. The Jap air force was staying on the ground-whether from fright or because its planes were busy elsewhere, no one knew. Therefore living habits in thousands of towns in southwest China could be, and were, changed. Stores and shops reopened...
...base. In March-according to last week's reports-Korean workers suddenly attacked the base, set fire to four underground hangars, destroyed two big fuel tanks and 69 airplanes, killed 142 of the Jap crew and wounded or scorched another 200. Trembling with rage and fright, the surviving Japanese butchered every Korean on the island, some...