Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Scare. With all the talk and market activity, neither the market nor U.S. businessmen were basically affected in their stance by the collapse of the summit. "The American business community has been scared so often," says Inland Steel Chairman Joseph Block, "that a scare doesn't have any real effect any more. We go on an even tenor." Actually, businessmen agreed that the summit explosion came just when the market was due for a rise, and just when the mood of U.S. businessmen was changing. Says Chevrolet Boss Edward N. Cole: "The pessimism about our economic health which prevailed...
What these figures show is that the U.S. tobacco industry, which has undergone crisis after crisis, has not only recovered nicely from the cancer scare, but is turning the unsettling side effects of the debate to its own advantage. By flooding the market with filters that promised protection from tar and nicotine, tobaccomen turned the whole market topsy-turvy. In 1952 five brands, led by Reynolds Tobacco's Camel (and followed by American Tobacco's Lucky Strike, Liggett & Myers' Chesterfield, American's Pall Mall, and Philip Morris), held 82% of the cigarette market; today that share is held...
...first drink at a Christmas party, and since then I have had alcohol several times." Scenic Wonders. In Cavite province, the Philippines, officials posted on billboards huge blowups of 50 of their most wanted criminals, on second thought took them all down for fear they might scare off tourists...
...Then, just as suddenly, the market turned about and headed upward in a broad and spirited rally. It continued to rally for the rest of the week, ended at 628.45 on the industrial average, up 6.22 points for the week. Said Sidney B. Lurie, partner of Josephthal & Co.: "The scare is over...
...film's faults, along with its Asiatic strangeness and its painful subject, will surely scare away most U.S. moviegoers. Director Kurosawa is in such raging and relentless earnest that he labors almost every point he makes. And the film maintains its intensity at much greater length (2 hr. 20 min.) than the average spectator can be expected to tolerate. Furthermore, Actor Shimura, though at moments transcendently right and revealing, rather too continuously resembles a Japanese Jiggs who has just been beaned by the eternal rolling pin and is about to say tweet-tweet. But the minor actors are often...