Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...amazed man of Jericho went on to peruse a letter appended to the Graphic editorial, in which a presumed Graphic reader, one L. A. Wilson, besought the Graphic to "take the lead in criticizing the scare headlines in some papers which use such low-down tactics," referred to "the recent but harmless tremor of the earth," arraigned the News for flaunting on its front page a picture of what might have happened ito this city in a serious earthquake," prophesied that such tactics "mean ruin in the end for a paper belching forth such rot," stated of the News that...
...significance of the famine, which William T. Cosgrove, President of the Free State Cabinet, called "much exaggerated," and which Eamon De Valera, Anglophobe Republican leader, declared was an "English press scare," is to be found in the fact that hungry men stir the most dangerous political discontent...
...newspapers have spoken, some of them with eight-column scare headlines. The alumni have spoken, roared, or whined their grievances. Alumni interest in undergraduate affairs is welcome and necessary, and football comes, or ought to come, under the head of undergraduate affairs, despite the efforts of alumni to take it under their protecting wings. Yet the sort of interest which witnesses two or three major setbacks and immediately demands a new coach can be nothing but harmful. It is poor sportsmanship and poorer policy...
...visitors threw a scare into the first-year men in the second half when they caged a remarkable succession of long shots, and went into the lead. The Crimson teamplay and Slocum's uncanny shooting put the Freshmen back into the lead, however, and they were never headed...
Immediately before he was elected President, the Bolshevik scare had been to some extent dissipated by Mr. Calles himself. After his inauguration (TiME, Dec. 8), he had arrested Senor Proal, Red agitator, warned other agitators; he had cut down the enormous number of holidays hitherto enjoyed by Mexican Federal officials; he had promised a 30% decrease in Government expenditure for the present year. The result of this policy was to win the wholehearted support of the Agrarians, who pledged themselves to back the Government's plan of distributing and controlling agrarian lands, of establishing agricultural schools. As an official...