Word: scared
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Meanwhile, the odds on a Dilworth victory, prohibitive at the outset, plummeted daily. The Republicans still appeared likely to pull through on the strength of their customarily overpowering majorities in 20 downtown and river wards-the "controlled" wards. But Dick Dilworth was giving them a scare. Said one unhappy ward heeler: "It's getting so they're afraid to take a bet at City Hall...
...current Five-Year Plan, formulated in 1946, has as its first aim the restoration of 1940 levels. Hence the report plainly meant that Russia is not so strong as she would like to scare the world into believing...
Wheat, the other scare commodity which Truman proposes for greater European export, still is being consumed by the College at normal levels durant reported. He agreed to poll student opinion before ordering outs in bread, wheat cereals, and other combinations containing wheat...
...Good Scare. Viewed in that light, recent events were not leading toward war but away from it. Creation of the Little Comintern would help both Europeans and Americans understand the necessity of work and sacrifice in support of the Marshall Plan to keep the non-Communist part of the world stronger. True, the fear of war had grown. But fear and vigilance were close kin. The danger of war between Russia and the West had always lain in the possibility that the West would not understand the danger. The bitter candor of recent weeks was prophylactic, not symptomatic...
...Taft party, for instance, as you have read in TIME, encountered picket lines along its route voicing labor's antipathy to the Taft-Hartley law. The correspondents accompanying the party adopted one of the pickets' ditties (You Can't Scare Me; I'm Sticking To The Union) as their unofficial marching song. The Senator heard it so often that, in an off-the-record party in his private car, he finally joined the reporters in singing...