Word: scaree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hitler Hitler. President Roosevelt, whether he knew it or not, was using two Hitler-perfected techniques: 1) the war of nerves; 2) the undeclared war. Against Japan he was conducting a war of nerves so realistic as to scare even his own home-folks...
...naval base at Cavite, at Olongapo, where the Navy has been mysteriously building. All British and U.S. forces in the Far East were put on the alert. In Manila naval messages jammed the radio, forced civil officials to use commercial cables. It was Manila's biggest war scare, and as the week went on, it grew...
...enjoyed their brass band, their weekly parades at the Racecourse, their curio buying. It enjoyed Marine personalities like Colonel Richard Stewart Hooker, who could "roar like a sea lion, or coo like a dove." It enjoyed the Marines' practical joking, as when four leathernecks started a Communist scare by raising a red cur tain on the U.S. Embassy flagpole. The nervous International Settlement took special comfort in the Marines after Shanghai's British garrison left last year, after the Japanese got control of the Settlement's governing council last...
This is a familiar scare. Time & again U.S. oil reserves have fallen sharply, only to be replenished by a big new discovery. But previous discoveries were also preceded by a phenomenon not now present: rising prices for crude...
Although no official scare was kept of the informal contest, the Varsity could only pass the British goalie ones, while the visitors split the nets five times. The booters' lone score came in the second quarter when left inside Eli Berman took the ball down the middle of the field and passed to center-forward Jack Calhoun. Calhoun returned the ball to Berman, who ricocheted the ball away from the goalie for the tally...