Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been killed for a year; incidents on the Sea of Galilee make little stir even in the Israeli press. A likelier explanation was an attempt to convince the Syrians that their new military pact with Egypt might be more of a liability than an asset; and additionally to scare neighboring Lebanon out of joining the pact...
More than 50 steelworkers have already signed up, and Alvin knows that watchful eyes at the 1,200,000-member union's headquarters are on the project. Says he: "Automation's a scare word, but if we're going to scare our men, let's scare them intelligently. There's no point in telling them a second flood is coming and nobody knows where the ark is. Our four-year course...
With the help of good acting, the play has scenes of frightening power. But it highlights the behaviorism of junkies rather than the psychology, and ends up more a scare piece than a genuine study. Its naturalistic manner is drapery rather than flesh; it simply gives a New Look and a domestic air to melodrama. The melodrama itself is never stinted: the dope peddlers, for example, pay off as theater but bulk much too large for a serious problem play...
...brow, rather than the highbrow, who finds more than enough to bite his nails over in the Age of Anxiety without faking up a little more. The highbrow, in fact, whose modern poetic world has been defined by Poet Marianne Moore as "imaginary gardens with real toads," does not scare easily at imaginary toads, even if, as in Author Bradbury's case, the gardens are real enough...
Heading Home. In the spring, the expedition turned back, trying new routes. They had their horses stolen by Crows, got into a fight with Blackfeet, and had another Indian scare during which Lewis was accidentally shot in the buttocks. On Sept. 23, 1806, grimy, bearded and bursting with marvelous tales of things no other white man had ever seen or heard of, they reached St. Louis, "met by all the village and received a harty welcom from it's inhabitants...