Word: frightfully
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Both of the major morning Boston metropolitans, the Globe and Herald, ran front-page stories and supplemented them with more than a full page of additional details AEL> After all, there was not much they could do. The Inner Belt has been good copy for years; M.I.T.'s apparent fright constituted an undeniably significant story...
...trial begins," announced Radio Moscow, "with the interrogation of the accused Daniel. At the beginning of the interrogation, he impudently denies the obvious. But then, when the prosecution presents to the court a number of proofs, fright and confusion appear on his slanderous face. Yes, he is being pressed against the wall. Under the weight of the proof, Daniel is forced to admit facts of his criminal activity...
...OTTO PIENE, 37, was a teen-age flak gunner in Germany during World War II. He vividly recalls the incredible light patterns of tracers and the bursts of bombs. Says he: "Fright inspires inventiveness and gives birth to giant monsters." In 1950 he helped found the Group Zero in Düsseldorf, which investigated the effects of light. On his own, he designed "light ballets" like sweeping projections of tracer beams. "I want to demonstrate that light is a source of life which has to be continuously rediscovered, to show its expansion as a phenomenal event." His Fixed Star...
...severe case of stage fright ruined Harvard's chances for its first Ivy League fencing title as Columbia creamed the Crimson Saturday...
...youth of Britain and France have the same blue-jeaned bottoms and fright-wig haircuts as their U.S. contemporaries, and they dig the same big beat and atonal balladry. Still, the Teen-Age International is largely confined to matters of style; underneath, European youth today seems less discontented and considerably more cowed by the adult world. In Germany and Italy, the young are just too busy cashing in on their new prosperity to protest against much of anything. In Soviet Russia, while society is changing and the young show signs of restlessness, youth by and large remains earnestly conformist...