Word: scares
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Hearst's New York Journal-American ran an equally inaccurate scare head (RUSSIANS JOIN FIGHT). On the other hand, many a paper ran optimistic "reliable reports" that also turned out to be untrue. First Blood. For some of these early inaccuracies and confusions, the newspapers could be excused: when war came...
M.I.T.'s light-hitting freshman team throw a mild scare into the Yardling nine yesterday, taking a two-run lead in the first inning. But the Crimson had enough left to explode with six runs in the top half of the second, eventually winning...
...this doesn't appeal to you, don't let it scare you off. As in any science, a man has only to get excited enough about geology, and even rock-scratching will assume the charm and mystery of a Mediterranean cruise...
...through with its loan commitment. RFC was firmly of the opinion that with more capital Texmass would eventually get on its feet. At week's end, RFC was still prepared to make the "illegal" loan-unless Senator Fulbright raised an alarm loud enough to scare RFC into backing down...
After a rash of scare stories in 1949 about bacteriological warfare, the late Defense Secretary James Forrestal issued a carefully worded official statement. The dangers of germs as a war weapon had been grossly exaggerated, he said, but "an active research program on biological war fare ... is being conducted in the interests of national defense." Last week in Baltimore, Bacteriologist Perrin H. Long of Johns Hopkins Uni versity, addressing doctors interested in civil defense against atom bombs, called bacteriological warfare "bunk." Scientific knowledge of the subject at the moment, he said, does not point to its use as a successful...