Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fine mornings, so the Times says, the parrot can be seen walking about the lawns, slanging songbirds, nipping a blade of grass. Nobody worries about cats: to scare them off, he yowls like a fighting tomcat. If that fails, he barks like...
...seen, but his mother puts the number at 350. The doctors have tried such standard remedies as sedatives and drugs to slow down the impulses in the phrenic nerve, which controls the diaphragm. Jack has tried many of the unorthodox suggestions from his mailbag, and friends once tried to scare him out of his hiccups by phoning and impersonating the FBI. The scare only made him hiccup harder...
...Blatherskites!" snorted Humorist James Thurber, is the word for congressional Red-probers. "The end of American comedy is in sight, and the theater's gone to hell . . . Who can write where everybody's scared? ... I hate Communism . . . but I happen to be on one of those letterheads with Paul Robeson-and I'm not getting off ... because I'm not letting any Congressman scare me to death...
...brought the sophomore smoker, the outing of the scare that a hotel would be built on Holyoke and Mt. Auburn Streets, and William Jennings Bryan to speak on "democracy." On the eleventh, 2,000 avid crow fans waited until 3 p.m. to se Harvard got off to a fast start against Penn, M.I.T., and Cornell in the Quadrangular Regatta, rough water had postponed the race for three hours. The Cantab and Penn Crew soon left the others far behind. Matching stroke for stroke they swept down the Charles, but Harvard took advantage of a snapped oarlock in the Quaker shell...
...Nineties Saucers. "Who says that flying saucers were never seen before 1947?" asks Menzel. Recently he and his wife and young daughter visited the Library of Congress and found in the newspaper files a flying saucer scare more than 50 years ago. It started in California, where many flying saucers have been seen recently. "California had inversions then," says Menzel, "just as it has them today...