Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...threats-or worse. In Granite City, Ill., after Editor Cornelius E. Townsend had waged an editorial campaign against organized gambling in the community, a hoodlum recently emptied his revolver into Townsend's Press-Record office. Echoing many a fighting editor before him, Townsend said: "Maybe they'll scare hell out of me someday and I'll quit. But I don't think...
Although the McCarthy scare has more than passed its peak in the United States, some branches of the Government, notably the Foreign Service have not yet recovered their peace of mind. The Foreign Service, indeed, has been subjected to a strain which may have had a more damaging affect on its value than the machinations of any individual Senator...
Although British Actress Brenda de Banzie plays the villainess with a properly cold, glassy and unruffled air, Speaking of Murder never really pays off as a scare piece. Beyond making no attempt at mystery, it offers nothing authentic in terms of shudders, nothing urgent in the way of suspense. It has the leisureliness and even the longueurs of a conversation piece, but in places some of the rewards. It is precisely when Actress de Banzie and a hard-drinking, hard-bargaining Estelle Winwood-who is blackmailing her-are speaking of murder that Speaking of Murder comes most happily to life...
...rise was not all due to the Middle East war scare. In the past few years the Cuban sugar surplus has dropped from 2,000,000 to less than 1,000,000 tons, and production has gone down in many sugar-producing countries. In a move to check the price rise, the Department of Agriculture last week increased the 1956 import quota for the eighth time this year...
...prices, Harl is afraid they'll scare some people away. "But we've put a price card in the window, and if people come in here and make themselves look stupid, it's all right with me." Ukrainian coffee, at 75 cents, is the most expensive, and American coffee, at 30 cents, is the least...