Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They pushed into the Tower to hear 15-minute lectures on subjects that ranged from "The Common Cold" to "Constipation and Cathartics." Last week more than 1,900, the largest crowd yet, waited out the fire scare, filled up the aisles again after the firemen left, and carried on a brisk, free-wheeling discussion of "Emotional Problems...
Wickedly Fast. The out-of-this-world design of Bill Bridgeman's new airplane would scare the daylights out of the ordinary pilot. The X-3 has a long, droopy nose that looks as if it had softened and wilted slightly. High and far to the rear juts a monstrous tail. The fuselage has just enough room for two big jet engines, whose bulky, cylindrical shapes bulge the skin outward. The plane is much bigger than a standard fighter, and extremely heavy for its size: in engineers' lingo it has a prodigiously high "solidarity factor...
Bizarre cases of cataplexy rounded up by Dr. Levin: ¶A man who had attacks if he tried to scare a cat away, swat a fly, squash a bug or land a fish. ¶A boxer who had his opponent on the ropes, but could not bring himself to deliver the finishing punch. ¶Tennis players who, in the middle of a volley, drop the racket and either go limp in the arm or fall down...
...should be some graduate students, to boost the level of debate, but not so many as would shadow undergraduate efforts. Although a good share of the members will hold membership cards in existing political clubs, none of the congress's parties should attach itself to them. For that might scare off the very silent partners on the college political scene the congress is supposed to attract. Selecting initial membership from the Houses, and Union distinctly non-political bodies, could avoid this. Inside the congress, of course, parties can be as partisan as they wish...
...recent radar scare, which occured when radar scope operators in Washington, D. C., observed unexplained patterns on the screens of their instruments, is also explained. While radar cannot reflect an optical illusion, the radar beam itself may bounce around in such a manner that the "blips" produced can be mistaken for solid objects...