Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flag flown for Lebanon was wrong. Britain's sprightly Ellen Wilkinson had hoped to buy kitchenware, discovered that she would be unable to carry the extra weight by air, and settled for rayon stockings. The French complained of boredom. A secretary from the French consulate tried to scare up some French-speaking dinner and dancing partners among the women employes of the City of Paris department store...
...Unseen (Paramount) has the makings of a good scare picture: an in quisitive governess (Gail Russell); a suspiciously unpleasant widower (Joel McCrea); a medical neighbor with a voice like sloe gin (Herbert Marshall); a brutal and mysterious murder; two edgy chil dren (Nona Griffith and Richard Lyon) in sadistic league about some grim secret; a sour-eyed furnace-fixer (Mikhail Rasumny) ; and a rumor of wandering lights in the boarded-up mansion next door...
...company. Furthermore, well-heeled big companies might not be able to snap up the best Government plants by bidding high, then close down less efficient plants of their own. Nor would the Government, with peacetime operation as a guide, put too high a price tag on plants, thus scare off all purchasers, great & small...
...Deplore scare-rumors of impending orders to ration clothing, like the one that had touched off a buying wave right after Christmas...
Little additional light could be shed on the latest 4-F draft scare at press time last night, although the threat to the nation's colleges was made more specific by some commentators...