Word: frightfully
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...witness in the packed, TV-floodlighted Senate Caucus Room trembled with fright as he told his story to stern-faced Senator John McClellan and the labor-management rackets investigating committee. What brawny ex-Lumberman George Francis Heid, 35, was afraid of was not the power of the U.S. Government, as represented by the McClellan committee. It was the power of the Teamster Brotherhood, the U.S.'s biggest labor union (membership 1,500,000). Heid knew that testifying against Teamster Boss Jimmy Hoffa and his henchmen might bring ugly reprisals by Hoffa's ex-convict bullyboys. But with...
...Thawed Curl. Despite Hoffa's studied forgetfulness and witnesses' fright, the committee added some gamy paragraphs to the malodorous Hoffa record.* According to committee documents and testimony...
After the Faubus fright (TIME, Aug. 11), Northern editorialists happily hailed a big victory for moderation. In fact, it was more a personal victory for forthright Albert Gore than for moderation. Largely unnoted was the sobering point that the Governor's power, which made Arkansas' Faubus far more of a Southern hero than any Senator, was won by Buford Ellington, 50, former state commissioner of agriculture and campaign manager for Governor Frank Clement...
...Fright. What was frightening Japan was the sudden sharp rise in leukemia deaths among supposedly uninjured survivors. In the year preceding last week's anniversary, 65 in Hiroshima and atom-bombed Nagasaki died of "atomic sickness." In the previous twelve months, the total deaths had been 36; in the year before that, 20. Another statistic was just as chilling: of 32,000 children born in Hiroshima in the past 13 years, nearly one in six was deformed or stillborn. U.S. Dr. George B. Darling of the Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission protests that "the incidence of abnormal births to parents...
...most attractive promotion bait offered this summer is a $1,000 life insurance policy, written by Lloyd's of London to cover "the death by fright of any member of the audience." The movie: Macabre, a pallor game played by a mad M.D. When Macabre's Producer William Castle first tried to insure every human being on earth, Lloyd's was chilly. Lloyd's dickered with Castle over an estimate of the number of deaths that would occur, finally settled for an actuarially comfortable eight, made the premium $15,000. No bereaved heir has yet made...