Word: scared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were still off the pace, but close enough to throw a scare into the leaders...
...current lion scare is due to the war. Hunters have been idle for lack of ammunition. So far the lions have eaten 15 blacks, one mulatto. Nothing so terrible had happened since a lion leaped into a train compartment, snatched a plump white man from among half a dozen stringy blacks, dragged him off for supper...
Fighters chase the Things to the edges of a balloon barrage that would scare off a bomber pilot. But many a pilotless bomber gets through...
...also loves to sneak up on fellow reporters in the dead of night, scare the day lights out of them with a belch which has been favorably compared with the bark of a French 75. There are probably still some G.I.s who would not give their last cigaret or blanket to Ernie Pyle. But nothing that any G.I. can scrounge from another is too good...
...babies, hatboxes, bundles, dogs, cats, bird cages, tennis rackets, golf bags and box lunches. They squeezed through train gates, scrambled down baggage-laden platforms, crowded their luggage in passageways, pushed their way to seats, often stood up all the way. These were citizens that the ODT had failed to scare with crowded-train talk, or shame with messages about the wounded needing travel space. What they pushed and shoved and sweated for was a vacation, and they didn't care how uncomfortable they were...