Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...achievements. How Joel McCrea, the "great man" in this case, ever manages to get past first base ranks as the number one cinema mystery of the season. He gambles away his property, shoots his wife's best friend, disappears at the weirdest times, and manages to scare the daylights out of his wife when he is around...
Prerequisite for every Freshman class has been a book containing the names and pictures of its members, and it is to fill this need that the fall Red Book is being planned. Since Freshman activities are becoming more and more scare, a June issue would almost duplicate the November edition...
...most. Leonski, according to Dr. Wertham, was a lonely, heartsick tenement boy suddenly deprived of all sense of comfort and personal love. Under these circumstances the inhibitions piled up from the time he was a little boy, when his sister said, "He was so good he used to scare me," drove him to one of the rarest and least understood forms of murder-symbolic matricide. Without being aware of it, he wanted to kill his mother. With his mother 10,000 miles away, Leonski turned to substitutes...
...that the rubber shortage was terrible (despite Mr. Jones's grandiose plans), somebody else discovered another rubber source-guayule-dandelions -unpronounceable Polish and Russian weeds and inventors-new technological discoveries. Each "discovery" had some political wheelhorse to trundle it; each one had just enough "maybe" in it to scare Government rubbermen into another paralyzed pause...
...burlap scare started when Jap warships swooped into the Bay of Bengal, threatened to cut supply lines to India-source of 99% of world jute, from which burlap is made. With U.S. burlap stockpiles down to a bare three months' supply, something had to be done. It was. In March, WPB rated cotton-bagging at A2, only one notch below military cotton cloth. Month later Washington went a step further, forced all heavy-goods cotton mills to put 20-40% of their looms on cotton-bagging...