Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...disease-scare headline of the week was that pigeons carry a virus which can cause virus pneumonia. In the Journal of the American Medical Association, Army Lieuts. David C. Levinson and John Gibbs and Philadelphia's Dr. Joseph T. Beardwood Jr. reported six pneumonia cases definitely traced to pigeons-two had handled the birds and four lived in neighborhoods where they would easily breathe particles from the birds' excreta in dust...
...better clue to Francisco Franco's political health than the scare bulletins emanating from Spanish émigré groups in Paris, London and Mexico City was a brief announcement from the British Foreign Office: Lord Templewood (Sir Samuel Hoare), Britain's ambassador to Spain, is going home. Lord Templewood, long hated as an appeaser by Laborites, leftists and liberals, has skated over the thin ice of Anglo-Spanish relations since 1940. "At that time," said the Foreign Office, "it was expected [his] mission would be of short duration. But in the ensuing years situations arose which made...
...Japs' home air forces, staging in the Bonins, turned on a flurry of attack, bombed new U.S. airfields on Saipan and Tinian in the Marianas. But this preventive did not prevent another scare: three days later the U.S. reconnaissance planes were back over Tokyo. The Japs, who had been panicked by Jimmy Doolittle's token raid in 1942, were in a dither again, even before the first B-29 raid on Tokyo had been staged...
Optimists who had forgotten that recent Allied advances were the payoff of a battle fought two months ago in Normandy were shocked last week to find the Germans putting up another fight. But the scare which the Wehrmacht threw into the Allies at Arnhem obscured the fact that last week was a bad week for the Wehrmacht...
...Balance. A week later Roen and his crew of 50 had a bad scare. An airline kinked; air began to flow unevenly. The starboard decks burst out of the water, and the hulk listed dangerously. Months of body-breaking labor hung in the balance. A fast-thinking crew member picked up a shotgun, blasted the air hose. Gently the ship settled back into the water, to be brought up again slowly and on an even keel...