Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...third period Melrose threw a scare into the freshmen as they tallied twice more to tie the game up. Then Skip Johnson beat the Melrose goalie with a fast shot at 11:42, unassisted, but Melrose recovered to knot the score again...
...Republicans," he cried, building up to his punch line, "sit around waiting for us to make a proposal. Then they react with an outburst of scare words. They are like a cuttlefish that squirts out a cloud of black ink whenever its slumber is disturbed...
Pollster Claude Ernest Hooper threw a new scare into radio broadcasters. In Manhattan at the start of 1949, he reported last week, radio had some 81% of the nighttime broadcast audience, television only 19%. But by year's end radio's share of the nighttime audience was down to 59%, TV's up to 41%. The Hooperating was just what TV hucksters had been waiting to hear. Their flat prediction: TV's current U.S. audience of 12 million persons will be trebled...
There are some surprisingly sophisticated characterizations in this film. Cinderella's wisked stepmother is an example. I doubt that a live actress could have made as odious as impression as the animated woman. The stepmother's facial expressions, particularly the piercing eyes, seemed to scare the whole audience; many actually huddled together when she appeared on the screen. A close second for sheer hateability is the stepmother's leering, sharp clawed cat. This formidable Tabby does everything in his power to hurt poor Cindy and her mouse friends. It was with great pleasure that I watched him meet his awful...
Last week Jimmy Byrnes concluded that the answer was yes. His health was fine (a heart scare that led to his resignation as Secretary of State had proved a false alarm) and his election almost certain. His three opponents in the Democratic primary-the only election that counts-were scarcely serious competition for a man who had been Secretary of State, a Supreme Court Justice, and assistant President to Franklin D. Roosevelt...