Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...schoolteacher's routine. She would quite often feel a wave of hatred for her pupils, followed by a sentimental shame which made her look at them with a foolish smile. This amused the children. They could scarcely help writing smutty words on the blackboard or making noises to scare Miss Byrne. The other teachers began to notice that she seemed a little gruff when they met her on the stairs. Once she rated 35 out of a class of 40 "deficient in lessons," 25 "unsatisfactory in conduct," 22 "in effort...
Having stated his Chinese policy and defended it with arguments that have weight, chiefly in Communist circles, M. Stalin discussed the "White Scare" which sprang up in Russia as a reaction...
British "Red Scare" (TIME, May 23, et seq.). Few disinterested persons will deny that both of these "perils" are proving very useful to the governments concerned, and are being kept alive for reasons of internal politics. Naturally, then M. Stalin made a great many charges last week against the British Government which seemed to most Anglo-Saxons mere balderdash. For example, Dictator Stalin declared flatly: "The British Government is financing terrorist spies who commit arson and murder throughout the Soviet Union...
Drug clerks peered out of plate glass windows. Traveling men shuffled out from hotel lobbies. Women grabbed for the newspapers, gasped, shrilled, chattered. The sidewalks were filled with agitated pedestrians fluttering scare-head newspapers under their noses...
...vote-getting, it was Candidate Woollen who gave Senator Arthur R. Robinson a bad scare last autumn as one of the Democratic senatorial aspirants that cut the Republican lead from its normal 100,000 in Indiana to a scant...