Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bugs underneath. On the relief rolls were residents of $160-a-month apartments, drivers of new cars, racetrack habitues, Florida vacationers. Members of the Indiana legislature took one look, then pushed through a bill to open assistance records to public view. They believed that the risk of publicity would scare the chiselers off relief...
...LL.B. at Harvard in 1913. He became an assistant professor in 1916, full professor three years later, Langdell Professor of Law in 1938, and University Professor last year. In 1920 Chafee wrote an article that almost cost him his job. America was in the throes of a Bolshevism scare, and Chafee unpolitically criticized the conduct of a New York Judge in the Abrams sedition case. Accusations and demands for Chafee's dismissal poured into the University. To settle the matter once and for all, the Overseers held what was known as "The Trial at the Harvard Club" and President Lowell...
...bull is fearsome, dangerous. Not so. A bull is dangerous or not, according to his horns. Without fighting horns, he is not a fighter . . . The bull shown in your picture has a badly bent horn. He can't fight. Have no fear of him. He couldn't scare a Jersey heifer...
Bolles received word from New York yesterday afternoon that the game could be played without danger. The Columbia Athletic Association, in a meeting yesterday morning, decided that the school's recent polio epidemic scare had been sufficiently curbed to make cancelling the game unnecessary...
Nylon Glut It was a buyers' market, with a vengeance, for nylon stockings. Thrifty U.S. shoppers could buy sheerest-gauge, unbranded nylons last week for as little as 89? a pair, v. $1.20 earlier this year. Reason: when the Korean war began, shortlived scare buying caused manufacturers to turn out so many nylons that they glutted the market...