Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Francisco had eight cases but no deaths. When smallpox was reported aboard a naval transport which arrived bearing 1,426 home-hungry sailors and marines, alarmed health officials flatly refused to let anyone come ashore until April 1. A regular old-fashioned smallpox scare quickly started, spread up & down the coast...
...West Coast jitters did not infect the U.S. Public Health Service, which has seen cases drop from 48,907 in 1930, to 346 in 1945. Said Assistant Surgeon General R. C. Williams: "Smallpox is now practically a self-limiting disease. When ever you get a scare, everyone within 100 miles gets vaccinated...
...Year was greeted according to immemorial custom. Honanese hoisted red lanterns on 50-foot poles to scare away a ten-headed bird of evil. Kweiyang folk indulged in a kind of three-day gambling festival. In Yunnan no one would think of gambling (because if you gamble on New Year's you will gamble all year long); children gathered odd-shaped stones to represent bad luck, cast them into kitchen ovens to be purged...
...Triumph of the Will, a Nazi film made in order to impress the German people and to scare everybody else-a frightening example of cinema's potential for propaganda...
...letter was enough to scare any husband who values the seat of his underpants. It was written by a soap-opera addict. The starry-eyed housewife wrote: "I always listen while I'm ironing. It makes me forget I'm ironing...