Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Respect for such achievements should be enough to offset domestic conservatism on Election Day. But O'Brien has picked his district and waged his campaign with skill. Whatever the outcome, Herter, who has never lost an election, is getting the scare of his life...
Connie Pensavalle, a Greater Boston youth, was the Indian back who threw a scare into ex-Coach Dick Harlow and company two years ago up at Hanover. Chip Gannon scored thrice for the Harvards to ice the game, but Pensavalle, who passed for Dartmouth's only touchdown, kept the issue in doubt with his long heaves...
...some sort of peace here on the beach. Until we began ?o circulate among them with our books and magazines, there was an undeclared war constantly going on. One had built a 10 ft. fence to keep out prying passersby; one was a grouchy old codger who'd scare you with his growl; another read only the most violent detective magazines. Some of the women in the camp were groveling in True Confessions, living in a misty world of make-believe and dreaming of the day they'd be able to go back to civilization. We each lived...
...drunk, and do you think I am crazy?" cried the Russian. "I just fired to scare off the Germans-and that's nothing. If I wanted to shoot the Americans, I could have picked them all off-like crows...
...William Bickle, an investment broker and Drew's best friend, caught a bit of the limelight. Notably out of the limelight was another Drew crony and constant adviser, George McCullagh. One of the most powerful Canadian publishers (the Toronto Globe & Mail), McCullagh stayed away from Ottawa lest he scare off Drew supporters who still leaned a bit toward John Bracken's "ordinary man" position...