Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...said, 'I don't want to scare you. All I want to be is left alone.' He talked a little more and he got red in the face, and he said, 'If you bother my two boys, if you embarrass my two boys, you will find yourself wading across Lake Washington with a pair of concrete boots.' " The two boys: Teamsters' Organizer Clyde Crosby and Multnomah County District Attorney Bill Langley (who is still in office although under indictment for malfeasance in office...
...bomber might soon "be up for reconsideration," depending on the performance of Convair's newer, supersonic B58 Hustler bomber. Though Wilson's statement did nothing more than reflect the routine Pentagon procedure of constantly reappraising air needs, the Wall Street Journal blew it up into a long scare story headlined: PENTAGON WEIGHS FUTURE OF B-525 . . . and the Dow-Jones ticker carried a bulletin about the possible replacement of the B-52. In little more than an hour, Boeing dropped 3½ points from 52, reached a low of 47½ before the Air Force hastily announced that...
...yore, Yale's Griswold asserted that four Princeton presidents had expired within five years back in the 1700s. Then he quoted from a letter, hopefully quilled by Princeton's trustees to a presidential prospect in 1766. The missive's gist: Don't let our weather scare you; those other four men were all sick when they took the job. Princeton's Dodds, however, recalled the short careers of those predecessors of his, claimed that three of the four deceased were Yalemen, presumably in ill health from their undergraduate days...
...Many Doctors. Though the public diagnosis of the U.S. economy was inconclusive, contradictory and widely twisted by scare headlines, all the gabble gave the impression that something must be badly wrong with the patient. Washington, which seemed to be warning of inflation and recession at the same time, was actually saying that if inflation continued to increase, there would be a bust. But Wall Street's consuming worry last week was not inflation but deflation. The fact that the boom is slackening off in a few spots transformed the optimism of a few weeks before into an exaggerated pessimism...
Assuming that Hodel and Thomson are succeeded by meeker men, the present entertaining balance of power might be thrown completely off. Think what it will be like next February with no ex-president to beat the drum to scare up new members who will vote for his side. With no one to take former president Thomson's place, the yearly race between the two great factions in the club, Old Guard and Older Guard, might not occur...