Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stock market's response to the Middle East crisis demonstrated what a powerful teacher history can be. At the first emotional scare headlines, the big international oils dropped and, as expected, carried the market down with them. Dow-Jones industrials tumbled 5.96 points in a single session, the biggest sell-off of the year. Then investors paused-and realized that panic is always unprofitable. As in the Suez crisis and other flareups, they turned their attentions to shares that might benefit from a harder U.S. stand. In buying surges that frequently left the ticker behind, investors sent industrials...
From Hell It Came (Allied Artists). "It just won't scare the teen-agers."-H.H., Marietta, Minn...
After a two-month search, the University plucked John M. Yovicsin, the young (and successful) coach at Gettysburg, and hired him to replace Jordan. Yovicsin's first team was badly hobbled by injuries, yet won three games, gave Princeton a bad scare before bowing, 28 to 21, but just did not have enough for Yale. The result was a humiliating 54-0 beating in New Haven...
...such an ugly demonstration that a shaken Socialist Premier, Guy Mollet, pelted by tomatoes, had given up all plans for a liberal deal with Algeria's Moslems. Now, the Algerian colons reasoned, another new French government threatened to be "soft" in Algeria and needed a scare. Some among the crowds that gathered in the streets of Algiers were not content to leave it at that...
...mother fails, the daughter blooms. From Isa's great hate for Maurice blossoms, first, interest, and next, fascination. One midnight, when the slip-clad girl goes downstairs to fasten a banging door, she is waylaid by the panther-ishly urgent lawyer. Next morning she tries in vain to scare up her conscience: "You have a lover. You slept with your stepfather...