Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Milk-fed citizens will view with alarm your rashness in reporting the actual manner in which a soldier speaks when he is working. Don't let them scare you off. . . . Soldiers [don't] act and talk the way they do in the movies. . . . Continue to give us Belden, verbatim...
That anonymous OPA official who keeps thinking out loud gave both press and public another good scare last week. He thought there would certainly be a serious egg shortage, come December. Next day, OWI struggled to issue a soothing explanation: 1) civilians will get only a third as many storage eggs (one million cases) as they got last year, but the loss will be offset by a 13% rise in egg production; 2) more people are eating eggs these days and boosting the demand; 3) "this is just the sort of situation that gives rise to black markets...
...flat acres to make them unhealthy for landing enemy aircraft, had been removed for salvage. Stout wires hung alongside broad highways for the same purpose had disappeared. Plate glass was replacing boarded-up shop windows. The Great Western Railway had restored 510 station names erased during the invasion scare. Trams, busses, subways and autos were removing some shades from their lights. Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard called for abolition of the blackout...
...almost tickled the instep of the Italian foot. He got no reaction. Such sweeps became the pattern for his fleet. Whenever his ships found Italians, they whipped them. On one occasion Admiral Sir James Fownes Somerville on the Nelson knocked the Italians and escaped with nothing worse than a scare from an Italian torpedo, which missed. Flashed A.B.C.: "Flag to Nelson. Success of your operation should console you for nearly getting slap in belly with wet fish." When Admiral Somerville was given a second knighthood, A.B.C. signaled "Congratulations. Twice a knight. And at your...
...season is up to average, lightning will kill some 400 people by October,* burn up about twelve million dollars worth of farm buildings, cause half the oil-tank fires, set forests ablaze across the country, scare millions of picnickers and bathers, and add new legends to already existent vulgar errors...