Word: scares
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Browne and Nichols crew, off to a bad start, gave Tech a serious scare by coming within a half-length at the finish...
...Pepper of Florida, dubbed "Senator" by fellow-students in the Law School during the early Twenties, sounded off last night on the state of the nation before mounting the speaker's rostrum at the Law School Forcm to talk about the state of the world. Today's Red Scare he terms "passing whim" and the current communications crisis has caused him to envision a possible "national authority to regulate utilities...
...ones huddle together In time for the evening scare To chill their juvenile marrow And curl their innocent hair...
...trust-busting days of 1911, when John D. Rockefeller's Jersey Standard octopus had its tentacles cut up into 34 pieces. Though most of the pieces have grown bigger than the old trust, none has garnered a big enough share of the U.S. oil business to raise the scare of monopoly. And now that the Rockefellers have sold out the bulk of their holdings, no individual stock interest is greater than 4%. But Jersey Standard, allergic to the word "octopus," thinks that the more autonomy the subsidiaries have, the less it will hear the word mentioned...
That Trotsky Again. Millions of Frenchmen scented violence in the bitter wind. Socialist Premier Ramadier spent hours in his office neither reading nor writing?just tugging at his beard and staring out of the window. His biggest scare came when the rightist Parti Republicain de la Liberte scheduled a monster mass meeting at the Salle Wagram. Communists promptly called a meeting at the same place. Ramadier mobilized 25,000 police and soldiers, forced both parties to call off their demonstrations...