Word: scared
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lloyd Jordan's offensive and defensive strategy recalled to many observers the Harvard-Yale game of 1946 in which Dick Harlow's underdog Crimson team threw a mighty scare into a nationally ranked Yale eleven...
...were going for chow in groups of 30. I was in the first group. They marched us up the track and made us sit in a little straw. Then I watched the guard throw the safety on his burp gun. I thought he was just doing it to scare us. But when he started firing I fell over and played dead. I prayed too. In the confusion I ran across a field. In the field I picked up four radishes. I jumped into another gully and stayed there, eating the radishes. I heard the gooks shoot the other groups...
...same way, the surge of scare buying by civilians in the first post-Korea rush had caught the eye of Congress and helped bring on consumer credit controls. By last week, sales had slumped until they were barely above the previous postwar peak in 1948. Moreover, many a family which had decided in July to buy a new car or get the house painted-and hadn't yet done so-was now giving the matter second thought...
...York Times index of 50 combined stocks) had already broken through their June peaks and reached the highest levels since 1931. The conviction that victory was closer also brought a shift in trading psychology. The favorites last week were the television, motor and other "peace" shares, hardest hit by scare selling at the outbreak...
...much scare buying had the war set off? Last week the Federal Reserve Board provided the first rough measure. In July, it reported, installment purchases of automobiles, refrigerator's and other durable goods had sent consumer credit soaring $660 million, well above the $457 million rise in May and $550 million in June, to a total of $20.3 billion...