Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...wheel chair for almost a quarter of a century. But Mrs. Fowler and 49 other charter students, who expected their school would start this week, were last week informed that opening had been delayed until Sept. 13. That was because of the Midwest's current infantile paralysis scare...
...apparently only one of many reasons for the slump in the New York Stock Exchange (see p. 57), but other Exchange excitement could be laid entirely at war's door. Wheat jumped 3? a bushel one day on the Chicago and Winnipeg markets on a general war scare. Japanese bonds, in spite of a rally, stood 15 points below their price three weeks ago-a pain to U. S. banks which hold them as collateral for loans to Japan...
...Communist Germ Spreader." He has been accused of fomenting Red intrigues in Hungary, organizing the extreme left wing of Loyalist support in Spain, encouraging the growth of French Communism. Brazil got skitterish when he was reported trying to land at Rio de Janeiro. London had a scare last February, and once Denmark heard that the Communist bogeyman had crept in, disguised as a woman. When Moscow correspondents chased about to verify these rumors they generally found the "terrible" Béla Kun resting harmlessly at a sanatorium not far from the Datcha of Stalin. He occupied an unimportant non-political...
...effect Washington said to Rio: "You credit us with some paper dollars; we credit you with that much gold. You tell everyone this good news and they will be so impressed that it will be easier for you to scare off speculators from your currency and secure commercial credits...
...match this from the other side of the war, United Pressman Reynolds Packard cabled "My greatest scare of the Spanish War" from Rightist-captured Bilbao. During the Rightist advance "I flopped down behind the first shelter I saw-a fat pig which was sleeping against a tree." cabled Mr. Packard. "I must have snuggled too closely for the pig's comfort, because suddenly it reared up, grunted and started to waddle away...