Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Lynch in commenting on his action in '50, said, "I think we did enough to scare all the Reds away. Of course, if any new developments come up, the council would probably take immediate steps, but I think the Un-American Activities Committee doesn't need to come to Cambridge...
Combustion. The atmosphere was the same in most of Cape Province's polyglot cities. In the diamond town of Kimberley (pop. 75,000), the Negro location sprawls along the railroad tracks; white engineers sometimes scare off the matchstick-limbed Negro children who climb up on to the coaches begging for bread, by letting off gusts of scalding steam from their locomotives. A mob of Negro hoodlums spewed out of their beer halls, burning and pillaging saloons and municipal offices. Police killed 13. Earlier, in Port Elizabeth, four whites were murdered simply because they were whites. South Africans have often...
Farmers, who were frightened into Democratic columns in 1948 by the Administration's grain-storage scare, flopped resoundingly back to the G.O.P. Example: in 1948 Truman carried seven rich farm counties in southern Minnesota. This time Ike got them all. Pocahontas County, in northwestern Iowa, is a cash grain area which has been Democratic since 1928. Ike got 64%. Indiana's Hamilton County gave Dewey 63% of its vote in 1948; it gave...
...Russian Scare...
...wasteful gusher that it seems scarcely worth while capping the flow between the covers of a book; but he spews out so much of the rich stuff that he is very likely to flood the U.S. book market in the weeks before Christmas-if he doesn't scare most of the customers on to higher ground...