Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...talked to Shelley Mydans for three hours the other day . . . and whether she's telling a joke, talking seriously, or relating adventures that would scare Superman, she's cool as a Tom Collins. . . . Shelley Mydans is one of the relatively few people on our side who knows much about our Pacific enemy...
...Once a decoder was caught in Boston trying to sell the secret. Once, well-meaning agents of the Office of Strategic Services ransacked the Japanese Embassy in Lisbon, whereupon the Japs adopted a new code for military attaches. This code remained unbroken more than a year later. The worst scare of all came during the 1944 presidential campaign, when George Marshall heard that Thomas E. Dewey knew the secret and might refer to it in speeches (see below...
...doctors, attendants, dietitians. Aware of this, Four-Star General Omar Nelson Bradley came to a sharp decision when he took over the Veterans Administration: hospitals would henceforth be built near big city medical schools. Last week Oklahoma's windy Democratic Senator Elmer Thomas fired the first gun to scare Omar Bradley off such ideas...
...kidnapping scare swept Mexico City. Rumormongers said that Mexican ninos were being stolen wholesale and sold to wives of returning U.S. soldiers. In some unexplained fashion, the patter of little brown feet was supposed to make the returning husbands happy. Sober El Universal suspected a "premeditated effort to provoke state collective unrest." Many fingers pointed at Acción National and other anti-administration, anti-U.S. groups...
...simple expedient of telephoning the hospital from New York, [the Post] established that the officer . . . happened to be out for a few hours yesterday, visiting his wife, on leave granted by the hospital [and is back now]. He didn't vanish, but the scare headlines will...