Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Emperor is not ended when he is killed. According to the nationalistic Nipponese religious teachings, soldiers slain in battle become minor deities and go right on fighting the enemy in gremlinesque fashion. They foul up his radio equipment, make his detachments fire at each other, worry and scare his troops to the point of suicide...
...election at Brighton. Said Churchill in a letter to Brighton voters: Briant's claim of supporting the Prime Minister, while running as an Independent, was a "swindle." Resentful Brightonians did not elect Briant, a local barrister, but they did give him enough votes to give the Conservatives a scare...
...Scare Stuff? Snorted Dr. Alfred Stettbacher, a Swiss explosives expert: No rocket could be fired 120 miles today (shortest distance to London from the Continent: 90 miles); the rockets the Germans are using from planes against Allied bombers are actually 22-lb. projectiles with a range of about a mile and a quarter. "Secret weapons and rocket shells," he added, "are nothing but a nerve war to scare credulous laymen...
...move from the American to the Russian Embassy. The President did so, the next day. Churchill remained at the British Embassy, just across the street. The Russians then threw a screen around the Russian and British Embassies, turning them, in effect, into one armed camp. Probable reason for the scare: week before, 38 German paratroopers had been dropped in the vicinity, and only 32 rounded up. Even the janitors in the Russian Embassy were armed...
That overflowing wastebasket in Matthew S-32 is the result of a mice scare. The cleaning lady refused to go near the thing for a week after seeing a rodent leap out of it and leer at her one morning...