Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Dunster figures to have rougher sailing. Its toughest opponent will be Adams, which gave Leverett a scare last week, but lost 7 to 0. Dunster's other opponents are Eliot and Dudley who have only one win between them...
...tiger-and the elephant-infested jungles. Since Bhave and his followers are strict practition ers of ahimsa (nonviolence), and are not even supposed to resist a man-eat ing tiger or a rogue elephant, each vil lage we passed through furnished us with a corps of drummers to scare off the wild beasts. Before dawn every morning, as we walked through the narrow-jungle paths with the native party chanting the names of Hindu deities and the drums rolling, there would be occasional noises in the underbrush. But some how the only thing that worried me was a blister...
...defeat in the Ninth District will have an enormous effect in Washington next year, may scare the Republicans away from any changes in price supports. It is much too early to say, as some Republicans and many Democrats were saying last week, that the Administration has already lost the farm vote. What it has lost through overconfidence in Wisconsin and insufficient energy among Republican farm leaders, including Benson, is the initiative in the fight for a more sense-making farm program. Wisconsin's Ninth puts Benson on the defensive, and he will have a hard time getting...
...appeal for protection by the villagers. Britain countered by stationing three young officers and a batch of Trucial Oman levies in a string of Beau Geste mud forts sprinkled around the oasis, to harass and starve the Emir into retreat (TIME, April 27). Occasionally the British rifles would scare off a caravan, occasionally one would get through to bring food to the Saudi Arabians...
...ripple of cutbacks in industry gave Wall Street another scare last week. In two days of selling, the Dow-Jones industrial average lost 5.77 points, closed the week at 259.71, the low for the year; the rail average dropped 3.95 to 92.97. In the first day of this week's trading, industrials dropped another 4.22, rails 2.41. What set off the newest break in stocks was bad news from the auto industry, particularly that Studebaker was laying off 5,000 workers and cutting production by a third to help clear out dealers' inventories. Said company President Harold Vance...