Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...setting a newsstand to music ("I read Esquire for fashion, Police Gazette for passion"). In two hours they turned out a tune that New York City's Department of Health used as a singing commercial during last spring's smallpox scare...
...ducks do not have much sense, a dog's bark or a floating feather may scare them into piling up in great heaps in which the bottom ducks smother. Sometimes dive-bombing seagulls frighten them into drowning. Diseases may wipe out whole hatches. Yet when the Long Island Duck Farmers' Association recently hired a retired physician to conduct research into cures, he had difficulty getting information from tight-lipped quack farmers. During the prosperous war years, duck farmers netted anywhere from $7,000 to $50,000 a year-thanks partially to the 90? a pound they...
Several of the more unattractive aspects of journalistic and political activities were blended into one incident when the New York Sun published it recent scare story about the theft of certain A-bomb files. Statements issued late by Senators Hickenlooper and McMahon indicate that the Sun, foe one reason or another, had printed erroneous facts leading to an equally erroneous conclusion. Whereas the Sun reported that secret data was removed from files at Oak Ridge after they had been entrusted to the civilian Atomic Energy Commission, the truth seems to be that the papers were lifted from Los Alamos...
...focused in her handy opera glasses. With the bumbling kindliness of her type, she is also a busybody good neighbor, always willing to help, and capable, even, of pawning her opera glasses to help a friend. Life for Mrs. Marsan is excitingly recorded by New York's scare-headlined, tabloid Daily News: "She liked the love scrapes and the marriage tangles and the murders. . . . Best of all, she liked the pictures and the ads and the comics, and she read the Daily Horoscope the first thing, even before turning back into the building...
Third Party. But Henry was jubilant, and his statement of intentions soared with the upcurve of his jubilation. When he started out, Wallace was cautiously insisting that his sole aim was to scare the Democratic Party leftward. By the time he reached Denver, he was threatening: "If we can't make the Democratic Party liberal, we'll have to take what action is appropriate." In Bismarck he hinted with boyish glee that he might take "a Democratic vacation" in 1948, i.e., form a third party...