Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...barbaric savagery of the Mau Mau, Kenya's Britons fight back with the efficient weapons of the 20th century, and occasionally with a passion that matches that of their attackers. Last week, while the R.A.F. blasted the Nyeri forests with 1,000-pound bombs, which were supposed to scare the Mau Mau out of their hidden lairs, British justice took up the subject of two overzealous officers accused of matching the Mau Mau's cruelties...
Tagging along close to the saint, however, is another investigator named Krampus, a creature as cynical and evil as the saint is good. Adorned with horns, a lizard-like tail and a hideous black tongue, Krampus makes it his business to scare the living daylights out of children. As little Hans or Fritz, cowering behind his mother's skirts, diffidently proclaims his virtue, Krampus rattles a huge chain or lashes the air with a switch in menacing disbelief. Sometimes he even comes equipped with a large basket in which to carry off young people whose stories clearly...
...Laramie, Wyo., Scientist Robert P. Pfeifer of the University of Wyoming reported a new use for daytime radio programs. When amplified over a public-address system set in a grain field, soap operas "were enough to scare the wits out of blackbirds and sparrows. The predators quickly chose other fields of grain to feed...
...danger is that companies may wait too long. If sales fall off and they cut prices as a last resort, the drop is liable to scare off, rather than lure in the consumer. When prices are falling, he is apt to keep his money in his pocket, in the belief that goods will get still cheaper. On the other hand, if businessmen cut prices at a time when sales are good, they will persuade reluctant consumers to spend. It is one of the best ways to prevent the recession that so many businessmen are worried about...
...Johnston assigned Rewriteman Ralph O'Leary, 42, to "take your time, and find out all you can about this thing." Last week the Post completed an eleven-part series that blamed the Houston Chapter of Minute Women of the U.S.A., Inc. for much of the "large-scale Red scare in the community." The 200-odd Minute Women compose "the most powerful organization of its kind in Houston in more than a quarter century" (i.e., since the death of the local Ku Klux Klan). The Post's series brought the biggest avalanche of mail the paper has ever received...