Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...think or the expression of one's thoughts. To many it must appear that Mr. Bartley has set up a straw man which he can easily knock down with the full approbation of the Harvard community, but that his ecclesiastical, pietistic ogre is really nothing more than a scare-crow. Robert W. Haney...
...print] a headline from the Providence Bulletin over a caption that reads "Hopeful Headline.':, 'We don't want to scare advertisers' "... The story upon which the headline was based, and which apparently was not read by your compiler of headlines, was an ironic one, and so was the head. The jobs referred to were four in number, at the Rhode Island Development Council, at salaries ranging from...
Pocketbook Optimism. Some newsmen -who as a group are not famed for sunny dispositions-admit frankly that their sudden preoccupation with cheer radiates from the pocketbook. "We don't want to scare our advertisers to death," says Editor Joseph E. Lambright of the Savannah morning News, which last month reported that downtown sales were off 10%, next day ran an advertiser-pressured "clarification" explaining that the slump was caused by the suburban growth. Last week the Nashville Tennessean was pointedly warned by advertisers that its alert coverage of the recession was "bad for business." Newspaper front offices have reason...
...House Government Operations Committee, headed by Illinois Democrat William L. Dawson, angrily lit into the U.S. tobacco industry. The committee found, after study and hearings, that cigarette makers boosted filter-tip sales from 1.4% of the market in 1952 to better than 40% today by playing on the cancer scare with "deceptive" and "misleading" ads. Actually, said the committee, "the filter cigarette smoker is, in most cases, getting as much or more nicotine and tar than he would get from the regular cigarette the advertisers have persuaded him to abandon-for his health's sake...
...frequent briefings. The fleet of patrol cars is linked by shortwave radio to the Ambassador headquarters and to local police networks. Ramfis is accompanied constantly by two Dominican officers, and all three are armed; even the houseboy in Leavenworth packs a .32 pistol. There has been one big scare so far: a man waiting outside the hotel with a shotgun (he was carefully watched, turned out to be a hunter...