Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...weeks since he charged theState Department with harboring "57 card-carrying Communists," Wisconsin's Republican Senator Joseph R. McCarthy had reaped whole scrapbooks full of scare-head publicity. But, despite congressional immunity, and the urging of a Senate committee set up especially to investigate his charges, he had not named one Communist, or produced any new evidence...
Strachey's promotion was announced the same day Communist Spy Klaus Fuchs was convicted. The Standard linked the two stories together in one scare headline: FUCHS AND STRACHEY: A GREAT NEW CRISIS. WAR MINISTER HAS NEVER DISAVOWED COMMUNISM. The Standard's "proofs" were Strachey quotations, from twelve to 18 years old, expressing a sympathy for Russian Communism that Strachey had long since repudiated. "Spreading what [Beaverbrook & Co.] knew to be a lie," said the Tribune, was the kind of journalism that was "lower than [Lord] Kemsley" (the Tory publisher of four London Sunday papers, one London daily...
...third period Melrose threw a scare into the freshmen as they tallied twice more to tie the game up. Then Skip Johnson beat the Melrose goalie with a fast shot at 11:42, unassisted, but Melrose recovered to knot the score again...
...Republicans," he cried, building up to his punch line, "sit around waiting for us to make a proposal. Then they react with an outburst of scare words. They are like a cuttlefish that squirts out a cloud of black ink whenever its slumber is disturbed...
There are some surprisingly sophisticated characterizations in this film. Cinderella's wisked stepmother is an example. I doubt that a live actress could have made as odious as impression as the animated woman. The stepmother's facial expressions, particularly the piercing eyes, seemed to scare the whole audience; many actually huddled together when she appeared on the screen. A close second for sheer hateability is the stepmother's leering, sharp clawed cat. This formidable Tabby does everything in his power to hurt poor Cindy and her mouse friends. It was with great pleasure that I watched him meet his awful...