Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week, "a gang of us were knocking out windows in the Nazarene Church. Lew was half a block behind us, standing in a creek, and hitting them as regularly as any of us. The police-nabbed us boys up close to the church, put us in jail for a scare, but they never had any idea Lew was around. He escaped just because he could throw farther than the rest of us." Lew traded rocks for a baseball in order to get a job at the local American Viscose plant, whose factory team needed a pitcher. He improved fast enough...
...forward to prevent a whittling away of the Ford money for small projects of limited benefit, and to prevent also several wasted visits from important men. The grant should be used to provide for the greatest benefit possible for the greatest amount of time. The money should not scare the Houses, but should encourage them to plan carefully before they put it into...
...Page One editorial, the Blade explained that it avoids racial identifications in crime stories because 1) "a crime is the same regardless of who commits it." and 2) "such identification is often confused and mistaken." From last week's scare, the Blade was able to add a new argument for holding to its policy. "As all of us have seen," said the editorial, racial identification in a crime story "clearly plays into the hands of those who would stir up animosity...
...Class of '59 waits with baited breath for next spring. Will the tutors once again eliminate the bottom quarter of the class? Or will they, having given every one a good scare, assume that this class is working harder? Will they return to the old system of not flunking anybody...
...truth seemed to be that the Socialists themselves did not quite know. Erich Ollenhauer was flying about Germany in a rented, five-seater yellow Cessna, accompanied by his plump wife Martha and a pressagent. Socialist campaign slogans consisted for the most part of scare posters designed to show that Adenauer was leading Germany to atomic war. "Who Chooses CDU Risks Atom Death!" shrieked one Socialist poster. In Bremen, CDU workers countered with posters that said bitingly: "Who Chooses SPD Chooses Ollenhauer." Nikita Khrushchev had done Adenauer the great favor of pointing out, two weeks ago in Berlin, that Russia...