Word: frightfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...motorbike along the shores of a lake in the Inverness Highlands on a moonlit winter night in 1934 when he saw the beast. "I was almost on it," said Arthur Grant later, "when a small head on a long neck turned in my direction, and the object, taking fright, made two great bounds, crossed the road and plunged into the lake...
...backing of all important parties except the Communists. But financing it, even with a whopping U.S. handout (see INTERNATIONAL), made fiscal changes imperative. New taxes seemed necessary, including heavier, more equitably distributed levies on corporations and farmers. With parliamentary elections a few months off, the Assembly balked in political fright...
...years, educators have been trying to take the fear and fright out of U.S. schoolrooms by making things cheerful for the children: no more birch rods, no more dunce caps, an "understanding" attitude toward all concerned. By all accounts, children have never had it better. But what about the teachers...
More than once the bull had seemed about to die of fright at the scary look of the world. But like the great U.S. industrial boom, which had been prematurely buried time & again, he had refused to play dead...
...when he played the organ for morning chapel and also gave him lessons. Upon his sudden death Thompson had to take over the job of playing the organ for chapel. "I was scared every morning, but the repetition eventually cured me and I haven't had stage fright since," he recalls, "not even at my first class at Wellesley...