Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Spiritual Milk for Boston Babes in either England, drawn out of the Breasts of Both Testaments for their Souls' Nourishment. A question-and-answer catechism, written by the grandfather of Boston's famed hell-fire-and-brimstone Preacher Cotton Mather, Spiritual Milk was designed to edify and scare the daylights out of colonial moppets, e.g.: "Q. What is your corrupt nature? Answ. My corrupt nature is empty of Grace, bent unto sin, and onely unto sin, and that continually." It ended with the threat and promise that "the Righteous shall go into life eternall, and the wicked shall...
Most discouraging of all, Boston's soaring rates scare away the new industries which might halt the trend by bringing in new income to the city. Recently, the Prudential Life Insurance Company cancelled plans for a Boston project for this reason. Instead of industries, tax-exempt institutions have invaded the Metropolitan area, many of them serving state-wide and even nationwide interests, as do Harvard and M.I.T., for example. Boston is rapidly becoming a city of students, scientists, and humanitarians--which is fine for everyone except the tax-paying manufacturer...
...there an international crisis? Stalin was slow to commit Russia to foreign adventures, slower still to back down once he had committed Soviet prestige. Nikita Khrushchev with one brash threat against Turkey had launched a war scare that set the whole world's nerves on edge. Last week, bouncing into a reception at (of all places) the Turkish embassy, he called the crisis off between gulps of champagne: "Let him be damned who wants war. There will...
With a quip and a toast from Nikita Khrushchev, the great Middle East war scare collapsed. For the embarrassed Syrians, there was no concealing the loud whistle of escaping...
...debunked the latest outgrowth of Sputnikery--"flying-sauceritis," but deferred to Dr. Donald H. Menzel, director of the Harvard College Observatory for an authoritative attack on the latest flying saucer scare...