Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French seaside region of Brittany, a three-week smallpox epidemic slowed to a halt after catching 68, killing 14. Among the dead: two infants, a local health official. During the scare, more than 150,000 Bretons were vaccinated, along with all travelers and tourists. Cited as the bearer of the smallpox virus: a French army noncom just back from Indo-China...
...handed out Mausers and officers' commissions (instead of pay) to the volunteers. The President's U.S. -born wife Karen lent a hand with the dishwashing at the general staff headquarters mess, and President Figueres himself broadcast a heads-up message to the people: "We don't scare with the splattering of bullets...
Wynn considers McIntosh, his number one player, "very fast in covering the court and good with his placing shots." Number two, Larry Scare's height and his fine touch make him a fine prospect for the future. Number three, Henry Cortesi, is one of the team's fastest men, "a good fighter with power in his shots, but one who needs experience," according to Wynn. Power is also the chief weapon of John Davis, while Albie Zimmerman relies on deception...
...horror Stainless has a devastating effect on the women who cross his path. "Ah don't scare easily," says Stainless, "but the word matrimony jest turns mah spine to jelly." His generosity often leads to trouble. For the past two months Stainless has been acting as the target for a knife-throwing TV star named Hazie Blur-Blur who cannot see without glasses but is too vain to wear them all the time. Stainless took the job after her other partner quit, because Hazie told him that she would lose a $1,000,000 inheritance she intended...
...mugging goes on, it obviously goes best at the bottom of a pileup. Ball carriers who join the pros fresh from the unskilled slugfests of collegiate football learn fast how to fall with knees doubled and cleats in the air-a practice nicely calculated to scare off any unnecessary tackier. A runner who doesn't throw his arm in front of his face the moment he is brought down is either foolhardy or unconscious...