Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...separate and distinct pieces of metal as an ambulance driver on Italy's Piave front during World War I, has an artificial kneecap, bears scars from a World War II automobile accident, a collapsing ceiling and innumerable other mishaps), was dead. Newspapers all over the world ran scare headlines and obituaries, Havana waiters wept, millions of Hemingway readers expressed shock and sorrow...
Portable Escort. A tiny but clamorous siren for unescorted women to carry at night was put on sale by Dallas' Atlas Alarm Corp. Noisy enough to be heard a quarter of a mile away, the spring-powered siren is intended to scare off molesters and summon rescuers. Price...
...sharp, square peg confronted by polished, rounded holes, learned that the Bureau of Ships had decided to send a captain and four junior officers to Oak Ridge to study nuclear energy. He got the job. (No other qualified captain applied.) Nuclear physics in those days was something to scare even brilliant officers...
Heavy cuts in the size of the nation's standing army have thrown a scare into ROTC cadets around the country. Since a shrinking military establishment reduces the number of officers needed, many of the 17,000 graduating ROTC seniors will not receive commissions this June as anticipated...
ITHACA, N.Y., Dec. 16--Captain Ed Krinsky and an inspired Crimson varsity gave Cornell, the outstanding ball club in the Eastern Intercollegiate basketball League, a real scare before succumbing, 64 to 53, here tonight. The loss was the second in two league starts for the Crimson and gave it a record of two and two for the season; Cornell has not been defeated so far this year...