Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...winds were only moderate gales, but the radio Cassandras continued their warnings, interrupting programs to scare the wits out of audiences. Weather Bureaus far to the north firmly predicted high winds and torrential rains, followed by dangerous floods...
Improving steadily after his first-round scare, Ward came up against Booe in the semifinals and took his measure. In the finals, against Bill Hyndman, 39, a Pennsylvania insurance executive who won the Philadelphia Amateur 20 years ago, Ward could do no wrong...
Four recent libel suits did not faze Confidential magazine (TIME. July 11) and caused no change in its up-from-the sewer journalistic formula of sex and sin. But in Washington last month, Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield threw a scare into the magazine that rattled every skeleton in its closet; he barred Confidential from the mails after a "number of complaints." Post Office officials objected to among other things, a racy description of a stripteaser's gyrations and a "questionable cheesecake photograph of Hollywood Starlet Terry Moore. Hereafter each issue of Confidential must be cleared by the Post Office...
Deadening Fear. Apparently Perón had several aims in staging his melodrama : to whip up his followers' flagging loyalty, excuse his scrapping of "pacification," scare the opposition meeting-holders and leaflet-passers. Most important, perhaps, he may have wanted to forestall any new military move to get rid of him by reminding the high brass-especially in the navy and air force-that he can still draw big, ugly crowds to the Plaza de Mayo...
...well. For example, more in the interest of slam-bang headlines than from political conviction, Britain's popular dailies outdid each other the minute the U.S. made the announcement in March 1954 of the destructive powers of the hydrogen bomb. HELL BOMB, HORROR BOMB, and other black-scare headlines filled every Page One, along with such articles as "The H-Bomb...