Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...spellbinding oratory that so magnified every itch, twitch and minor pain inherent in every human being that half his listeners thought they had incipient cancer, tuberculosis or at least a chronic ulcer. Stevenson's speeches are filled with the same wisecracks, half-truths, distortions and exaggerations designed to scare the susceptible into believing that the Democratic Magic Elixir is their only hope...
Last week's snapback was triggered by predictions that 1957 would see production and sale of 6,500,000 to 7,000,000 autos, and that the Suez trouble would be solved without war in the Middle East. Even more important, Wall Street was getting over its scare that Eisenhower might be licked...
...victory when time ran out on the University of Connecticut with the ball on Yale's 3-yd. line. Pittsburgh, nearly upset by West Virginia last week, came from behind to beat Syracuse 14-7. Southern Methodist, upset victor over Notre Dame, threw a scare into favored Georgia Tech, but lost 9-7. Two favorites won according to form: Michigan, 42-13, over penalty-plagued U.C.L.A., and Oklahoma, which smothered North Carolina 36-0 for its 31st straight victory...
FILTER-TIP BOOM, some 30% of all sales this year, will help push cigarette consumption to alltime record in 1956. After slumping to 368.7 billion smokes in 1954, during cancer scare, says Agriculture Department, consumption climbed back to 382.1 billion last year, will hit estimated 395 billion in 1956, some 900 million better than previous record...
...patiently reconstructed his movements of the few previous days. Lopuszynski remembered driving near Cracow with a friend named Wladyslaw Mazurkiewicz after a night of heavy drinking. A loud explosion had suddenly awakened him from a snooze. "It's nothing," his companion had said. "I just wanted to scare you with a firecracker...