Word: frightingly
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...Date. What caused some fright were the high prices and predictions of still higher prices to come. (General Motors' President C. E. Wilson said that next year's G.M. cars may cost up to 5% more than this year's.) Well aware that higher prices would nip buying power, 75 of 100 economists polled by the F. W. Dodge Corp. set a new date for a "mild recession"; it would begin next spring...
...fright and suspense of the closing sequences depend largely on the conception of the pathological Udo and on Richard Widmark's remarkable performance of the role. He is a rather frail fellow with maniacal eyes, who uses a sinister kind of falsetto baby talk laced with tittering laughs. It is clear that murder is one of the kindest things he is capable...
...started into the house after her. She became hysterical with fright and began firing. Anne had never fired a weapon before in her life. I know she did not intend to kill my father, because she loved him as we all did. She would not have intentionally killed even to save her own life...
Mexican prisoners scorn anything like escape art. Instead of landscapes, birds, or flowers, most of them daub away at private horrors. Samples: a half-human fetus turning away in fright from a street, a huge fist clutching eight cadavers, skeletons, three starved men craning their necks to catch driblets from a single spoon. One lifer, condemned for the murder of his wife and children, had dreamed up a lovely woman trailing blood across his cell floor...
...ever heard his shamelessly sentimental braying of Tin Pan Alley ballads would believe it, but to hear Al Jolson tell it, he still has stage fright. Said he: "I die every time I go on the stage. . . . What's the use of falling on my face?" He didn't have to. At 61, Mammy-Man Jolson was in the chips. Two years ago he was sick, and though not broke, afraid that he soon might be. He had developed an abscessed lung while entertaining troops overseas, and ended up in a Los Angeles hospital. When he recovered, Hollywood...