Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Treading Water. Despite the slowdown, there was no general sense of gloom. But with retail sales lagging 6% below the scare-buying period of 1951, there was a feeling of caution, except where big bargains were offered (see below). The trouble was, said the Commerce Department, that people were unaccountably saving money at a record peacetime rate of $20 billion a year, instead of spending it. Said a Chicago businessman:"People are scared to move out and do things. There is too much insecurity over Korea and the election in people's minds. Everybody is buttoning...
Hannie was aghast at the idea of a beanball or "duster" (a pitch aimed at the batter's head to scare him away from the plate). Righthander Hannie never has to resort to such strategy, because ordinarily he simply strikes out half the opposing batters. He has no change-of-pace pitch or slow ball, only a curve ("which I invented myself") and a fast ball ("which I hope some day to be as good as Feller"). Because Honkbal is played on soccer fields, Hannie has never had the advantage of pitching from the raised (15 in.) mound...
Bond also denied a statement attributed to him that "it never entered my mind that such a thing could happen at Harvard. I know now that it was no more than a stupid, vicious prank. It wasn't intended actually to scare us--just to remind...
...dialogue ranges from fifth to mawkish sentimentality. Walter Abel, as Captain Mike Dorgan, alternates between swallowing nobly and delivering impassioned speeches into a ship-to-shore phone, which scare the daylights out of his six WAVES. At length, however, his more elevated sentiments blossom forth, and he breaks into a rousing chorus of "For Those in Peril on the Sea." The less said of the rest of the acting the better...
...President still walks the Lincoln Room. Once, when two school friends of the baby (Margaret Truman) were sleeping there, he said, he suggested to the madam (Bess Truman) that he might arrange for the ghost to really appear. (He didn't say how.) Bess thought it would scare the girls to death, and vetoed the idea...