Word: scared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany used threats of invasion against the Low Countries to find out how those countries would react to actual invasion. For the same purpose Germany kept the Balkans in a state of jitters last week. By displaying her Army across the Danube, by spreading rumors and feeding correspondents scare stories, the Germans have already learned that there is no fight in Bulgaria. Last week they turned the heat on Yugoslavia. Rumors spread that Germany had demanded the use of Yugoslav railways for the transport of equipment to Albania, that large German forces were being concentrated on Yugoslavia's borders...
Rochester, N. Y. had a scare six weeks ago, when water from the dirty Genesee River was mistakenly turned into the city's water pipes. Since then there have been bellyaches, some dysentery, three cases of typhoid, claims of $173,000 filed against the city...
...with a little more time Adolf Hitler would surely find means to bluff or persuade Stalin and either satisfy or scare Boris III. Boris ought to scare, for his chance of getting adequate aid from either Greece, Turkey or Britain for defense of his country is not bright...
...window of The Fair (Chicago department store) in the bitter winter of 1890, Claus Gokey has earned $15,000 at his jocular sideline. He has also acquired a high scorn for the thousands of street-corner and department-store Santas who have followed in his footsteps. Said he: "They scare children...
...club's directors-which include a city judge, a football coach, a theatre manager and a banker-admitted that they were broke and unable to carry on, agreed to let the Washington Senators, holders of a $40,000 mortgage, take back the Lookouts-unless President Engel can scare up the $20,000 necessary to operate for another year...