Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Secretary of State has given forth a stream of words--from "massive retaliation" to "agonizing reappraisal" to "liberation of the satellites" to "the Portuguese province of Goa" to "the brink of war"--which have done far more to frighten our allies and our potential allies than to scare the Soviet Union. The President has asked for close consultation between the U.S. and Britain and France, but the Secretary of State has released the Yalta Papers, announced U.S. Middle Eastern policy, and "unleashed" Chiang Kai-shek, without much more than a glance at Western Europe...
Quietly Dropped. Neurologist Bailey used his sharpest scalpels on Sometime Neurologist Freud: "His ideas were often launched with great enthusiasm, like scare headlines in a newspaper, and then quietly dropped without retraction . . . Many of Freud's psychological writings are not scientific treatises, but rather, reveries-a sort of chirographic rumination...
...popular belief is that a war scare sends the stock market up. Last week the New York Stock Exchange proved the old saw false. Exactly the opposite is true. In a study of violent, day-to-day market fluctuations (2% or more change on the Dow-Jones Industrial average) from 1935 to 1955, the exchange reported that in 58 wide swings where war news was a factor 51 were downward. Of the seven advances (between September 1939 and June 1940), all were attributed to the hope that the U.S. would not get into the actual shooting, but that increased foreign...
...South's worried soul-searching over desegregation, Southern businessmen have found a new cause for alarm. They fear that the uproar may scare away their star boarder: new industry from the North. In the lead article of its April issue, the Southern Regional Council's New South cautions: "The bright future of the South in industry is being dimmed by racial tensions." pie D. Shelton, executive vice president of the Baton Rouge Chamber of Commerce, warned the Southern Association of Chamber of Commerce Executives: "Boycotts, economic reprisals, incidents of violence-these are new factors which will...
...perpetrator of overambitious publicity stunts. Now, I have further been taunted by having my beloved Mt. Hood spirited across the river to Washington on the pages of TIME, Feb. 27. Please, sir, desist from this journalistic gerrymandering; give us back our mountain and let Washington Republicans be content to scare Adlai with such common threats as airplane trouble...