Word: frightfully
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Local Negroes rallied, too, instead of fleeing homeward in the usual pattern of fright. In Mink Slide, a rickety Negro business district, they gathered...
...fountains so that they drowned; getting up at 4 o'clock in the morning; bears and cougars; syphilitic Indians; drunken Indians who once paid her a threatening visit when she was alone at night; Author MacDonald got rid of them by grabbing a gun and shouting in her fright: "Shi'll oot!" [I'll shoot! ] which she thinks must be Indian...
...know whether my fright is from my own sense of inadequacy or from the physical danger involved. I think it is from the fright of failure. I cannot bear to fail. It would be much better to die tomorrow night than to live and fail these kids and in the battle for peace...
Through V-J day, M.O.I, will continue its job, then be absorbed into the Foreign Office. But last week, with its major tasks finished, two of its brightest stars departed. Minister Bracken, 44, a Churchillian favorite, whose unruly red hair looks like a badly made fright wig, moved up into the Admiralty. Tall, sensitive, sensible Robert Cruikshank, 47, head of the American Division, moved to Fleet Street as political editor of the News Chronicle. Britain, which knows better than the U.S. that a necessary evil can merit praise, gave them a "well done...
...split second the acetate ignited and burst into a roaring inferno. Cries of fright changed to screams of terror and of mortal agony that were soon drowned by the leaping flames and the bursting of hand grenades tossed into the open doorways...