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Word: scarely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ordered up a couple of beers while the jukebox was grinding out Jealous Heart, danced about, began fooling around the shuffleboard game. Then Granillo tossed a couple of heavy shuffleboard weights across the crowded room. Bartender Edgar Gray (at right behind bar) told him to clear out. Trying to scare Granillo, Gray pretended to call the cops. "He started coming toward me," said Gray. "He started calling me a lotta names. I got rattled." From behind the bar he grabbed a pistol, shot and killed Eugene Granillo. Police held Bartender Gray on a homicide charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Death Of A Young Man | 11/14/1949 | See Source »

Minnesota's big, rugged line was enough to scare any coach. Before last week's traditional battle for the "Little Brown Jug," Michigan's Coach Bennie Oosterbaan decided to strike over Minnesota's beef trust instead of through it. Bull's-eye passes set up two Michigan touchdowns...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Upset Saturday | 10/31/1949 | See Source »

Adams Suffers Scare...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Adams Continue Undefeated | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

...Gold Coasters suffered a scare when Winthrop held them scoreless through the first three quarters, but poured on the steam in the final period, behind great line play, to squeeze...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Eliot, Adams Continue Undefeated | 10/26/1949 | See Source »

...world was a paranoid Luna Park lit by alcohol and filled with ingenious contraptions for the exercise of harmless aggression and idiosyncratic suspicion. To find out if his servants were stealing canned goods, he set up an elaborate Dictaphone apparatus. To scare off kidnapers, he would prowl his grounds at 2 a.m., armed with blackjacks and carrying on loud conversations with fictitious bodyguards. He never made his peace with the world because he saw no good reason to be at peace with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Self-Made Curmudgeon | 10/17/1949 | See Source »

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