Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Very interesting," Valentine said, looking menacing and mysterious. "Very interesting suggestion." Obviously, Valentine hoped to scare price raisers by threatening a price rollback. But it didn't quite come off-it only made clear that, at the moment, Valentine wanted to achieve by threat what he was not ready to achieve by deed...
Refusal. Next day, Alan Valentine got an answer to his first public move to scare industry into voluntary controls. He was soundingly slapped down. Ford's Henry Ford II had announced an average 5.5% price rise on 1951 models...
Consumers did almost no scare buying last week. The dollar volume of U.S. department-store sales was just about the same as last year, and the unit volume was probably below. Groaned one merchandiser: "We could use a little scare buying." Storekeepers guessed that those who wanted to hoard had overstocked in July and were now living off of their fat. And the rest of the consumers, said one merchant, were "all scared...
Lloyd Jordan's offensive and defensive strategy recalled to many observers the Harvard-Yale game of 1946 in which Dick Harlow's underdog Crimson team threw a mighty scare into a nationally ranked Yale eleven...
...were going for chow in groups of 30. I was in the first group. They marched us up the track and made us sit in a little straw. Then I watched the guard throw the safety on his burp gun. I thought he was just doing it to scare us. But when he started firing I fell over and played dead. I prayed too. In the confusion I ran across a field. In the field I picked up four radishes. I jumped into another gully and stayed there, eating the radishes. I heard the gooks shoot the other groups...