Word: frightful
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...night in the year the female comes ashore to lay her eggs along the deserted southern beaches. A timid creature, the turtle takes fright at the slightest sound or light and retreats to the ocean, to return again at some more opportune time, always under the cover of darkness. How to photograph this episode in the life cycle of the turtle presented a problem which many investigators had been obliged to give up. Repeated tests, carried out on an island off the Georgia coast, indicated that when the turtle had once begun the actual egg-laying process she became oblivious...
Plucked to the Skin. Obeying orders from Moscow, the long grey Soviet armored trains which plunged their fangs into Manchuria last fortnight withdrew to their own frontiers last week. But in the areas they had raked and ravaged Chinese fright and confusion grew from panic to anarchy. Soldiers deserted their colors, looted indiscriminately. Hundreds of refugees who straggled into the larger Manchurian towns and Harbin, the capital, had been robbed of all their possessions by Chinese, not Soviet troops. Some were stark naked, plucked to the skin. As usual, a good many fingers had been cut off by Chinese soldiers...
...Lorain, Ohio, Priscilla Shivock, 3, was pounced upon and bitten by a goose in a farmyard, died of fright...
...something halfway between 'I am very pleased' and 'Please be seated'-and immediately began to talk such inexplicable rubbish about reconnoitring the village, the old Sabakin, the swindling representative, the bloody Tsar Nicholas, Isabella and other things, that the women were absolutely tongue-tied with fright and respect, and the driver exclaimed in a drunken voice, 'Gee up,' and clapped his arms across his chest with sheer delight...
...opinion cats are very delicate and especially susceptible to colds and pneumonia, and should never even in the warmest weather be bathed in the open air, or exposed to any draft while the least bit wet. So many of them surfer severe aftereffects, as well as torture from extreme fright, which cats who are not accustomed to water always have of being put in it. Give 15 minutes excitement at a County Fair, and set a bad example of animal treatment to all children present...