Word: frightening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will have made its decision. The French debate begins this week. Mendès-France had confidently predicted in Washington that the National Assembly would ratify before the end of the year. Last week, when the Russians sent a threatening note, he scornfully asked: "Do they think they can frighten France?" He was equally casual about Adenauer's alarms over the Saar, putting out reassuring word that Adenauer was speaking for usage interne (home consumption) only...
Somewhere a little old lady named Virginia sits reading her newspaper in a rocking chair. Sometimes the headlines in the papers frighten here, and this is one of those times. DOCTOR SAM TELLS OF TUSSLE; REDS HOLD INNOCENT SOLDIERS; HEMINGWAY RECOVERS FROM CRASH WOUNDS, they say. Virginia lowers her spectacles and quivers. She had always thought there was a Santa Claus, ever since that nice editor answered here letter, but maybe...
...class sordidness and misery, The Young and the Damned has no great social message; it is instead a vivid portrayal of rottenness under the log of a Mexican city. In this role it succeeds remarkably. Luis Bunuel has mixed elements disgusting enough to sicken, with others realistic enough to frighten. The result is a depressing, albeit excellent movie. It contains little of the traditionally tragic. Its themes are frustration, unnatural relationships, and violence; its heroes, street urchins, blind beggars, and murderers...
...touching the ground more than W. (for Warren) Randolph Burgess (no kin to the poet, whose limerick he likes to quote). As the Treasury's top money expert, Burgess dabbles in such weighty and occult fiscal matters as rediscount rates and refundings, deals in sums that would frighten a lesser man. As manager of the biggest peacetime financing in history, he must raise $65 billion this calendar year. Last week Congress promoted Moneyman Burgess from Deputy Secretary to the new post of Under Secretary of the Treasury for Monetary Affairs at a salary...
...with Communist triumphs elsewhere, but he was worried about the party's declining membership in Britain. Admonishing the 650 delegates to the British party's 23rd national congress, Pollitt said last week: "It is high time that we stopped creating the impression that does so much to frighten other people from joining the party, that we are some kind of human beings who never eat, sleep, play, dream or even make love...