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Word: scarely (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...time he returned,* hot objections were rolling across the islands. Adams did not budge; concession or not, he said, "the federal government can levy its own income tax after five years and make it retroactive." Such a statement could easily scare off Refinery Builder St. Hilaire, and Jamaica did not take it quietly. Jamaican Chief Minister Norman Manley said that if the federal government even thinks about voiding Jamaican deals, "Jamaica would be forced to reconsider her position in regard to federation itself." Last week Manley's top political opponent, rabble-rousing Sir William Alexander Bustamante, put it even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE WEST INDIES: Island's Rights | 11/17/1958 | See Source »

...would normally receive from the atmosphere in 24 hours. Radioactively speaking, L.A. had thus lived two days in one. But the L.A. radioactivity reading was possibly the highest radioactivity level ever recorded in the continental U.S. outside the test grounds. The miracle of it was that, with all the scare headlines, radio and TV broadcasts, the citizenry had taken it as calmly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Fallout in Los Angeles | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Preparations for the Penn varsity football game were interrupted by a bomb scare at Soldiers Field at 10 a.m. Saturday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Students Caught In Bomb Scare | 11/3/1958 | See Source »

...Decks Ran Red (M-G-M), another high-tension, low-budget movie made by Andrew and Virginia Stone (Julie, Cry Terror!), is a shipboard scare-show that will probably make a good many customers queasy-some because they cannot stand the sight of so much blood, others because they like their terror firmer. The story begins aboard a greasy old freighter when one of the hands (Broderick Crawford) decides that the world has too many people and he has too little money. He knows exactly how to solve both problems at once: murder everybody on board, then claim the ship...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Also Showing | 10/27/1958 | See Source »

...start of this sunny afternoon the crowd of 46,367 got a real scare. Burdette, the invincible, had loaded the bases with nobody out in the first inning...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Braves Win Second Straight Game; Yankee Killer Lew Burdette Hurls | 10/3/1958 | See Source »

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