Word: scared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Section 2D, passed by Parliament during the invasion scare of 1940, gives the Government power to suppress any publication without trial. So far, 2D has been used only against the Communist Daily Worker. But when the Churchill Government threatened to use it to silence the London Daily Mirror (TIME, March 30) Britain's editors were aroused...
...first scare headlines predicted 2½-5 gallons a week. At week's end motorists could breathe a little easier: their ration would probably be 25-30 gallons a month...
...tactful, well-bred," crepe-hung women sent by the solicitous French Government to break the news to the next of kin when soldiers were killed in action. The women must "neither be attractive enough to take men's thoughts away from grief nor ugly enough to scare the stricken children." Later Madame Berthelot worked in the passport bureau. There she owed her promotion from a hard to an easy job to her second cousin by marriage, a petty official called The Navet (Turnip). He got her promoted by "culling evidence of a particularly rare pastime to which...
...entire field, for that matter, does not seem to scare its concentrators and a goodly number of them frankly, and often disappointedly, admit it can be taken as a "bull" field. Examinations are very often passed after a day or two of cramming and except only such better tutors as Mercier, Penny, and Seznac the tutorial can be disregarded. Romance Languages, is the field most nearly approaching the prep school student's idealization of college life, you will get just as much out of it as you put into...
...Stout offered his own formula for beard cultivation on the first day of the great razor-blade shortage scare, to men who preferred to give up shaving. Prescribed bearded Author Stout: "Sulphate of ammonia, nitrate of soda, and beer. And plenty of beer...