Word: scares
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...baboons retreated, took to coming out at night to get revenge. Salmon and his men installed electric flare lamps along the runway to scare them off, but the baboons thought they were forest fires. One night a ghostly army of the creatures, led by an aged and skilled tactician, sneaked out of the forest and raced across the open to the flare lamps. They smashed at the fires with sticks and stones, swung at them with hairy fists, howling in warlike fury all the while. "It was some night," reported Manager Salmon dolefully. And it was enough. Last week Manager...
People are losing their teeth twice as fast as they need to, said a dentistry dean last week, and the big reason is that they rely on "confectionery" pastes and powders. "Advertisements scare people into buying many preparations that merely alleviate symptoms," Dean Harry Lyons* of the Medical College of Virginia told New York dentists. "So the real trouble often becomes serious before it is treated or prescribed...
...cigarette crusades ("One cigarette," quoted the first Digest, "will kill a cat"), he smokes steadily. He also likes to drink, and regularly used to sit up all night playing poker. He learned to fly his own plane, and, until the Army commandeered it during World War II, liked to scare Lila by buzzing their house. He drives his car so recklessly that few who know him will ride with him. He still likes to play pranks. Once, on his way to a Halloween party, he sent word that he had been hurt in an auto accident. Then he tottered...
...surprising Northeastern track team threw a slight scare into the Crimson Saturday, but near sweeps of the hurdles, dash, 300, and 600 yard runs eventually accounted for a 66 to 42 home team victory...
Douglas also said that the time has come for American liberals to take a positive stand against the present political hysteria, by energetic opposition of scare bills, and by testimony at legislative inquiries...