Word: scared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...things.) If an incendiary bomb is found burning in a building, throw gasoline on it. (You can't put it out anyway, so you might just as well have a little fun.) . . . Always get excited and holler bloody murder. (It will add to the fun and confusion and scare hell out of the kids.) . . . If you should be the "victim of a direct bomb hit, don't go to pieces. (Lie still and you won't be noticed...
...order was designed to relieve not only a looming smokeless powder shortage, but the sugar scare (see p. 70). Most ethyl alcohol is normally made from molasses, a by-product of sugar. To increase their production, however, the regular alcohol makers have recently been using not just blackstrap molasses but whole cane syrup (high-test molasses), thus cutting into the sugar supply...
Sirs: Since early childhood I have had very definite ideas of just what Satan looks like. All my ideas are personified in your cover of TIME, Dec. 22. I really admire strength of character but Yamamoto is one to scare little children. . . . RUTH COLE Blackwell...
...narrows his, too - though never to the exclusion of the view that the responsibility for Naziism is as broad as the surface of the planet. He manages to whip in a good deal of data on the U.S., England, France; on such symptomatic side shows as the Lindbergh kidnap scare, Basil Zaharoff's patronage of mediums, and the game of put-&-take played at the Geneva Arms Limitation Conference. But he draws his most serious bead on Germany, and on what happened there to his hero Lanny Budd...
...third day of the war, at lunch time, radio stations on the Atlantic seaboard had to grapple with a scare report (see p. 61). In a sweat of swift thinking ("hardest thing I ever had to do") CBS's News Chief Paul White decided that until it was more than an unconfirmed rumor, the cause of the alert should be treated as such. He called up NBC's News Chief Abe Schechter, reached an internetwork understanding. Slight inducement to panic thereafter came from CBS or NBC announcers...