Word: scare
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...teachers are quick to resent interference with their political rights, like to play politics, sometimes run for elective offices. This fall many a teacher, like many another citizen, has exercised his time-honored right to take the stump. Last week a University of California legal officer threw a scare into such teachers with an opinion that if they were paid in part from Federal funds, the Hatch Act barred them from politics...
...Adolf Hitler now thinks the war may last many years, even if Britain is conquered, and may involve every nation including Russia, Japan and the U. S., became pretty clear as news of the conversations leaked out. No doubt Rome and Berlin were not above trying to throw a scare into the world by making their plans sound vague and big, but there was also little doubt that those plans took into account far-flung moves and their consequences. Discussed were...
That Franklin Roosevelt or any other President would wish or have to use such power to the full appeared unlikely. Its mere existence serves the purpose: to scare a recalcitrant few. Assistant Secretary of War Robert Porter Patterson assured industry that the power would be applied to only "one case in a thousand." But he left no doubt that the Roosevelt Administration was prepared to crack down on the thousandth...
...thin thread of continuity that runs through Hold On to Your Hats is spun of the same stuff that has gone into most theatrical satires on radio. A timid aerial star known as the Lone Rider is enticed to a Western dude ranch, confronted with real bandits who scare the chaps off him until just before the finale, when he gets the drop on them all. Jaunty at 54, still tops at putting over a song or a story, Jolson gallops triumphantly through the part of the Lone Rider, accompanied by a whole rodeo of able talent...
...when the chips are down. And everyone knew that the champ, rated world's No. 1 amateur, was eager to win the U. S. title again this year to enhance his prestige as a potential partner for Don Budge on a professional tennis tour. But McNeill does not scare easily. After taking a sound thwacking for two sets, he sprang from behind, unleashed his formidable net at tack, dominated the court, finally dethroned the champion...