scarehead

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Under the scarehead Has 'Polio' Hit the Yankees?,

From Time Magazine Archive

The scarehead editor, well aware of his sheet's reputation, said: "We could not afford to print such a piece of inventive lunacy."

From Time Magazine Archive

Since the war's beginning no week has passed without scarehead rumors and wishful guesses as to the state of the world's oil supply.

From Time Magazine Archive

To take expensive pains to give newspapers accurate medical intelligence and then to have papers garble & scarehead an announcement was the heart sickening experience of New York doctors last week.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is simply that the reality of a revolution is not in a political decree or the scarehead of a newspaper, but in the experiences, feelings, habits of myriads of men.

From A Preface to Politics by Lippmann, Walter