Word: frightfully
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Ordinarily most members of Congress-particularly Senators-are not oversensitive to letter pressure.* They well knew that President Truman had incited much of this tide of jeers by his bold veto ramble and by his radio talk to the people. But the deep general fright over the rising cost of living showed through these letters. Many a Congressman caught the inflation jitters, took a long second thought...
Markets at Work. As the week of uncertainties "wore on, many a citizen got over his first fright of rocketing prices. By the end of the long Independence Day holiday most people felt somewhat better. The big blow they had expected had not hit. The nation's economy had not been shaken to its roots; it had hardly been shaken at all. The dollar had not gone to pot.* No panicky buying had developed at any market level...
...warmth of the Japanese reception was too much for four-year-old Mickey Driver. He stiffened with fright when one of the kimonoed women picked him up, recovered when his father, Commander Orvil Driver, told him to "Shake hands with the nice Japanese lady...
Some of the contestants went out on words they obviously knew, because of stage fright (one girl tripped on across). Indianapolis' entry, twelve-year-old William Frazer, wore a red-plaid "lucky" shirt, its pockets overflowing with rabbits' feet and four-leaf clovers. (He went out on mendacious.) The audience's obvious favorite was Mattie Lou Pollard, 13, who goes to a one-room schoolhouse in Thomaston, Ga. and has had only one teacher all her life. (She lost on anarchy.) Third-place winner, Leslie Dean, 12, of Hawthorne, N.J., flunked on asceticism. Other toughies: hypotenuse, covenants...
...room to meet her war-returning husband, the wife (Anabel Shaw) overhears a violent quarrel between two strangers. She also sees, through an open window, its brutal & bloody consequences. When the husband (Frank Latimore) finally arrives, full of love and yearning, he finds his wife rigid and popeyed from fright. Unable to talk, unable to move, she is obviously a serious mental case, an ideal subject for Eminent Psychiatrist Vincent Price, who soon bustles up, brisk and professional...