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Word: scarely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russian's face turned red. "Oh, that woman!" he shouted. "All this trouble for a woman who is not even home! I thought the Americans wanted to capture me. I just fired in the air to scare them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: International: Incident at the Widow Lehrte's | 10/11/1948 | See Source »

...suggest that you change the title of your Science section to "Science Fiction." The cause of my disillusionment is your rebroadcast of the theory of Mr. Hugh Auchincloss ("Upset the World") Brown in TIME, Sept. 13. The location of the piece under "Science" and the scare headline put you in the position of trying to frighten a somewhat stupid child by telling him ghost stories . . . I enclose a 1? stamp and I suggest that you use it to start a fund to be used to buy Brown a 10? gyroscope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Oct. 4, 1948 | 10/4/1948 | See Source »

Chiang returned to China in 1937 with his blonde Russian wife. Of privileged financial big shots he once said: "If you do not scare them, they will scare you." Last week he had Shanghai's fat merchants badly scared. Before a cheering "Youth Army" audience Chiang declared: "It does not matter if pork and perfume disappear from the markets. So long as the people are not starved to death, it does not matter if all the department stores and big restaurants are closed . . . Our new economic policy is a socialistic revolutionary movement...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHINA: Spirit v. Money | 9/20/1948 | See Source »

Juniata McMichen, 19, of Atlanta, tried a variation of the scare technique. She took an hour-long ride in a stunting airplane, including a dive from 10,000 feet. It was her first plane ride and she was "almost scared to death." But it did no good; she climbed out hiccuping six a minute. Doctors finally cured her by crushing a phrenic nerve...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: How to Cure Hiccups | 9/6/1948 | See Source »

...singlehanded ; Dulcie Gray is highly satisfactory as his clumsy, devoted wife; and the handsome but somewhat wooden Kieron Moore is effectively used. The picture, made in England by Fox, is well filmed and has a climactic scene high on a fire ladder which is an excellent piece of pure scare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, Aug. 30, 1948 | 8/30/1948 | See Source »

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