Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...feeling nothing at all. Children want all the emotions. If they do not suffer, they want to know what suffering is. Why else do they ask you, 'Have you got a book that will make me cry?' or 'Have you got a book that will scare me to death...
...Robert Richards was mildly apologetic for the stubble that darkened his unshaven face. "I always try to look rough on these days," he explained. But 5 o'clock shadow did not scare off his fans. The crowd on hand at Indiana's Wabash College for the National A.A.U. decathlon championship-the trials to determine U.S. Olympic contenders-dogged Bob Richards' every step...
...England's capital is known to its criminals−reciprocate by settling their private differences in an equally quiet way, with razor blades half-buried in potatoes or the point of a razor-sharp shiv. Last week London's sensational penny press was black with scare headlines suggesting that gang warfare of a cruder type had come to The Smoke. Four men had pulled up in a car before a dingy boarding house in Maida Vale, crossed the sidewalk in broad daylight, entered the house and pumped lead into a sleazy race-track gambler. "Police believe," reported...
...court tactics and coaxed her into daily practice. By 1948, at the age of 20, she was Negro women's champion. The prim and proper U.S.L.T.A. could not long evade inviting her to Forest Hills, and there, in 1950, she gave former National Champion Louise Brough the scare of her life before Louise's experience and talent finally pulled her out of the match. Ranked seventh in the U.S. in 1953, Althea went out to Missouri's Lincoln University (Negro) to teach physical education and coach the men's tennis team...
...evacuation scare started earlier in the spring, when Gov. Christian A. Herter '15 announced that all critical areas in the state would be evacuated in June to prepare for attack...