Word: scared
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Soldiers were slightly more in evidence than usual on Caracas streets last week. There was an irksome 7 p.m. curfew, and at night Caraqueños heard isolated shots from snipers vainly trying to scare up a little counter-revolutionary enthusiasm. Except for these signs, and the new faces in Miraflores Palace, Venezuelans might almost have asked themselves, 'What coup...
With such words ringing in their ears, the C.I.O. delegates made big political plans. After pausing long enough to throw a scare into the Reds in their midst (see below), they talked of farmer-labor unity, discussed Government housing programs, price control, civil rights, medical insurance and federal aid to education. Said C.I.O. President Philip Murray: "We will obtain enactment of many important pieces of humanitarian legislation...
THANKS TO TIME FOR NEEDED ANTIDOTE TO RECENT SCARE BOOKS RE FOOD AND PEOPLE. BIOTIC POTENTIAL OF SOILS IS NOT A CONSTANT BUT RATHER A FUNCTION OF ADVANCING SCIENCE APPLIED TO BOTH CROPS AND SOILS . . . PRODUCTIVITY OF U.S. FARM LANDS IS RISING NOT FALLING...
...game, they'll all be back, they always are. A ragged Hickman team beat Brown by 15 points, and a crippled one downed Wisconsin, which though hardly the class of the mid-west, is still a member of the Big Nine in good standing. Injury-riddled Yales threw a scare into Princeton...
...educational gap in the Houses would be a series of informal bull and beer sessions. At first no big name experts would be called in to cow the undergraduate talkers. Tutors and graduate students might be invited, but only on the understanding that they stimulate rather than scare off the random thoughts of the other members. Some alert House secretary might announce an enticing subject one or twice a week--or, if all went well, several subjects for several talk teams. And if the matter of the meeting veered from the Vandalian invasions to the Politbureau to the delayed buck...