Word: scared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lord Privy Seal in Neville Chamberlain's Cabinet, Sir John expertly worked out plans for the evacuation of 3,000,000 Londoners, then became Secretary for Home Affairs and Home Security before the invasion scare of 1940. It was in this post that he fathered the famed Emergency Powers Act which, among other things, provided for the arrest of persons accused of "spreading alarm and despondency...
...Army wouldn't laugh their heads off, I would like to suggest that Dali be commissioned to run up and down between the tent-rows in Africa- to scare away the scorpions and snakes, or bite the lizards and kangaroo rats...
Said Henry Wallace, in a radio broadcast: "Among the self-styled 'realists' who are trying to scare the American people by spreading worry about 'misguided idealists' giving away United States products are some whose policies caused us to give away billions of dollars of stuff in the decade of the '20s. Their high tariff prevented exchange of our surplus goods. And so we exchanged our surplus for bonds of very doubtful value...
Last winter the Terriers threw a scare into the Crimson before bowing 3 to 2 in a tight engagement. This season they opened the campaign with a decisive 14 to 2 licking of M.I.T., a crew the puck-Chasers shackled 13 to 4--scores which correspond more closely than somewhat...
Said Zurich's Volksrecht; "The prospect of death can scare no one who must imagine what the 'New Europe' of tomorrow will be like from the way it looks today...