Word: scared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...force it is, and with labor still predominantly of Democratic registration, the main effort of the Republicans must be to disaffect the Jeffersonian and non-union Democrats. The middle and far west are excellent spawning grounds for this dissatisfaction, with unpopularity of the O.P.A. and the current red scare providing the impetus. The loss of Henry Wallace will produce the same result at the other extreme. Yet the question remains whether the key Democrats in this key area will desert in numbers large enough to allow a clean oppositionist sweep. For nothing less will give the Republicans control...
...simply, we think Hallowe'en is a good time for a good scare. We think it is time for a scare that contracts the most placid muscles of the heart, that creeps along the spine and mingles with the marrow of the bones, that agitates the well-springs of the elemental reflexes...
...still they came, the red-legged Schistocerca paranensis, in fresh waves from Argentina. Farmers tried to scare them off by waving bamboo sticks, beating drums, blowing sirens, sending out little dogs with bells around their necks.* Others tried shoveling up all young locusts still unable to fly, piling them in fenced-off areas and burying or burning them...
Talk of the Italian customs union was immediately used by the Communists for scare stories about Western "economic expansion in central and southeastern Europe." General Clark's remark that Russian cooperation in Austria might be enforced by making a proposed U.S. loan applicable only to Austria's western zones was promptly blown up to mean a threat of "partition...
Washington. Republican Harry P. Cain, former mayor of Tacoma, threw a scare into Democrats by his aggressive speeches. So the Democrats threw Senator Warren Magnuson, their glamor boy and best vote-getter, into the campaign for Senator Hugh B. Mitchell. To raise Cain's chances, the G.O.P. then opened up its big guns on the liberal side: Harold Stassen and Oregon's Senator Wayne Morse. Outlook: very close...