Word: frightfully
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...started into the house after her. She became hysterical with fright and began firing. Anne had never fired a weapon before in her life. I know she did not intend to kill my father, because she loved him as we all did. She would not have intentionally killed even to save her own life...
Mexican prisoners scorn anything like escape art. Instead of landscapes, birds, or flowers, most of them daub away at private horrors. Samples: a half-human fetus turning away in fright from a street, a huge fist clutching eight cadavers, skeletons, three starved men craning their necks to catch driblets from a single spoon. One lifer, condemned for the murder of his wife and children, had dreamed up a lovely woman trailing blood across his cell floor...
...ever heard his shamelessly sentimental braying of Tin Pan Alley ballads would believe it, but to hear Al Jolson tell it, he still has stage fright. Said he: "I die every time I go on the stage. . . . What's the use of falling on my face?" He didn't have to. At 61, Mammy-Man Jolson was in the chips. Two years ago he was sick, and though not broke, afraid that he soon might be. He had developed an abscessed lung while entertaining troops overseas, and ended up in a Los Angeles hospital. When he recovered, Hollywood...
Approaching the Stadtbahn station, the group met a stream of men & women hurrying home from work. Some started with fright when they spotted the prisoners. Others scowled darkly at the pock-marked Russian Tommy-gunner. Several passers-by produced precious cigaret butts which they pressed into the hands of the prisoners...
Something besides fright and disillusionment was abroad in Britain. This disaster gave neither call nor lift to the human spirit, as had Dunkirk and the bombs. But one quality of the people stood out: Britons blamed only Britons. Gone was the cloying tendency to blame everything on the war and bad luck. Britons looked to themselves as they had not for a long time. That is their strength, and it may be their salvation...