Word: scaree
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...next scare has had to do with the invasion of America by Hitler's army. After destroying England and capturing the English feet, the Nazi conqueror was to come over here and land his legions on our shores. Was there ever anything in that Listen in the testimony of an expert on the subject Lieut, Col. Thomas R. Phillips of the U. S. Army General Staff, as presented in an article published in "Army Ordinance," the official organ of the Army Ordnance Association! Pointing out that the modern bombing-plane has made it possible for this country to insure...
...News Chief Editorialist Reuben Maury (who also writes editorials for interventionist Collier's) vied with the Tribune's bitterest, Anglophobe, Roosevelt-hating, gallows-dancing, isolationist editorials, cartoons and news. One News editorial played variations on the theme: "[The Administration] is accused of keeping the war scare pumped up to frightful proportions in order that it may quietly and under pretext of wartime emergency transform our democracy into some sort of totalitarian state, before many of us know what is happening...
...faced ensigns with new golden wings sparkling on the breasts of their uniforms were tried by court-martial. On a bright March morning Ensign Paul C. Brown, 22, had dived a training plane low over farm workers in a turnip field near Robertsdale, Ala., because it was fun to scare them. Ensign Joseph C. Thompson, 23, riding with him, had done nothing to make him stop. On the dive on the frightened workers, Pilot Brown flew too low, scraped the ground. His wing sliced the head off a woman worker, 38-year-old mother...
...Freemasons of the U.S. had a right to be puzzled last week over the Nazis' latest "sensational exposure" of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Plastered over the Berlin papers, heralded in scare-heads, was a "secret illustrated document" a six-year-old group photograph showing the President wearing the apron of a Freemason...
Whether the gun would be fired depended chiefly on Japan. But its very size and power were enough to scare many U.S. businessmen-to say nothing of Japanese businessmen-last week. In combination with similar British and Dutch weapons, it might lay the Japanese economy low in six months (see col. 2). But it also had a kick that would jar 200,000 silk workers in the U.S. (see below...