Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...head. On top of that, droughts in the Southwest forced cattlemen to move their stock to feed lots early. Result: an above-normal flow from crowded feed lots to the stockpens of Chicago, Omaha and Kansas City, and a sharp decline in prices. This in turn touched off some scare selling...
Williams give the squash team a scare in a Hemenway contest, but the Crimson came away the winners 5-4. The Yard swimmers rounded out the day's activities, sinking La Salle Academy 46-29 at Cambridge...
Despite Hedda Hopper's hysterical warning that "Invasion U.S.A. will scare the pants off you," everyone leaves the R.K.O. Boston fully clothed. The film, a clumsy propaganda package, is never plausible and only occasionally exciting. It opens in a New York bar, where a cattle baron, a pompous Congressman, and a selfish industrialist are ridiculing America's war preparations. After a professional seer has given them visions of a vanquished America, these men leave the bar sadder but wiser. The audience leaves only sadder...
...from secure Saigon to tiny towns barely out of sound of Red gunfire, stevedores, coolies, wealthy rice merchants and civil servants jammed into polling places last week and in local elections gave Emperor Bao Dai's anti-Communist government a thumping vote of confidence. The Reds tried to scare off the voters with Sten guns; in one region they even kidnaped five candidates. But 80% of the registered voters turned out, and in some cases waited two and three hours to vote in Viet Nam's first elections...
...long arm of Uncle Sosso still throws enough of a scare into Budu to keep him changing residences frequently. At present he is living on the outskirts of Paris, under an assumed name. Seven years of Western freedom have given him a more critical slant on the Stalinist regime, and he is busy on a gloves-off treatment of Uncle Sosso, to be called Stalin Told...