Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...trying to cut the road to Taegu," said grey-haired Mike Michaelis as he sat, bone-tired, against the wall of his culvert command post as automatic weapon fire zinged and buzzed like angry bees around him. "He's trying to scare me into withdrawing and leaving my equipment. Then he can come down the road with his armor. I'm just not going...
...Chong discovered what Michaelis' men knew-the colonel was a hard man to scare. In the face of Kim's enveloping move, Mike sat tight and blasted away with his expertly placed artillery. He had some bad moments when his artillery fire control center, directing four batteries, suffered a direct mortar hit which killed his best fire control personnel. But under Mike Michaelis' skillful direction the batteries continued to fire...
...reserves that banks are required to hold against their deposits; this would cut down funds available for loans. Nevertheless, the Treasury seemed in no mood to back down on its policy. Officials argued that a slight increase in interest rates would not check inflation; it was not enough to scare off borrowers. At the same time, a slight increase in Treasury's rate would add considerably to the burden of carrying the national debt-i.e., an increase of ⅛ of 1% in the Treasury's short-term interest rate would boost the interest bill on the national...
...over the U.S., consumers snared the Wall Streeter's eloquent indignation. Scare-buying and hoarding had slackened off but still prices crept up. Since Korea, meat had jumped 10% and 15%, butter and eggs were up at least a few pennies. Coffee, which had been riding high even before Korea, had managed to jump another 6? or 9?. "Sugar, soap, flour-things you never bother to price before buying-have gone up," complained a West Los Angeles housewife...
Hard on the heels of the scare story that the U.S. was invading Germany with the Colorado beetle, the Communists spread another fantastic tale: the "Amis" (Americans) had mined the Rhine's big Lorelei rock†so that they could blow it into the river, creating a dam which they could later break to flood the flat lower Rhineland. Last week the Communists followed through with a singing commercial over Berlin's Red radio station...