Word: frightfully
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...murmur of worried conversation turned to cries of fright when the guards unlocked the two doors and hurled in acetate, dousing the tinder-dry buildings and splashing over the prisoners crowding close to the only routes of escape...
...checked and found, strangely enough, his new blues to be ill-fitting. "Sherman was right," says Chuck; "wonder if he got his uniforms the same place I got mine!" Sam Wolf learned the real meaning of "Penny Serenade" during one of his banquet pleas the other day. The Popps fright being a thing of the past, he failed to recover the cast-off cash, hence Stan Siskind's recent spending spree...
...fall of the little flow indicator ball in the oxygen control box (most flying was done at heights requiring masks), took pulses and armpit temperatures, watched for trembling, pallor, changes in pupil size. In all, he observed 16 different men during the ordeal by flak. Only three showed no fright reaction...
Pecky Takes Over. Still amiable, Mr. Wickel asked for the rest of the bill, was informed that a white parrot named Pecky could tell, if it would. Stiffened with mike fright fortnight ago, it wouldn...
...chief U.S. expert on migratory birds, Frederick C. Lincoln of the Fish and Wildlife Service, doubts such stories; he admits that birds are sometimes forced down by snowstorms, but thinks confusion and fright have as much to do with it as anything. Nonetheless, airmen's reports have greatly extended ornithology. Airmen, for example, have found old notions about the speed of birds much exaggerated: the top speed of ducks seems to be about 55 m.p.h.; of the fastest known birds, swifts and duck hawks, not more than 150 to 200 m.p.h...