Word: scaringe
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Prophet of P.P. Fired from his bookstore job. Gordon at last gets a bellyful of real poverty. He spends most of his time lying on a foul mattress and staring at the ceiling. He watches the bugs march in stately procession round his garret-but not very often, because the...
¶ Scaring off the birds with loudspeakers. Rejected as too expensive.
The prospect of the A.F.L. C.I.O. merger, said Truman, is "scaring the daylights out of the Republicans," and there is evidence that "Republican politicians are getting ready to play pretty rough next year." Then he looked up from his text and added: "If the Democratic Party invites me into the...
¶ In London, Expatriate Orson Welles began a new filmed TV series over the BBC. Called Orson Welles Sketch Book, the one-man show will feature Welles telling stories about bullfighting and black magic, or just chatting. None of the subjects seems capable of scaring the British as successfully as...
As head of E.N.I., Oilman Mattei is an implacable foe of any foreign-capital oil investment in his homeland. His enemies say that Mattei, more than anyone else, is responsible for scaring away the very type of enlightened foreign capital that Italy must have to complete its economic recovery. Italy...