Word: scared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...experts might be too sophisticated to admit it, but in the public eye the Army team is a gang of super-dupermen who dwell high on the west banks of the Hudson, knock the sawdust out of tackling dummies all week, emerge from their caves on Saturday afternoon to scare women, children and mere mortal football foes. There is logic in the notion...
...tube does not solve television's basic problem: how to scare up enough programs which people will want to look at. But it helps greatly by widening the range of events which can be televised. It can watch a parade, a ball game or a presidential inauguration in any kind of weather. Indoors, it can see by the ordinary lights of a stage or an auditorium...
...dead and decaying shark. An extract of rotten shark proved even more effective. Eventually, the active substance so offensive to sharks turned out to be a chemical which people don't mind. A black dye was added to the brew, just to give the sharks a good visual scare...
Last week, the Office of Defense Transportation made it plain how much worse they might get. It ordered U.S. railroads to pool all their passenger and baggage cars, so that they will be on tap to meet Army demands. This was partly scare talk, to keep civilians off trains. But it was also a plain warning that, from now on, civilians will travel only at the pleasure of the Army...
...General . . . just sort of hold your tongue at least until after that San Francisco conference." The General finally grumbled to a Manhattan reporter: "You can't stop fires by abolishing the fire department [but] now look, lady, be a nice girl and let's not have any scare headlines. I'm always getting in trouble...