scarehead

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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

With World War II it was surer than shellfire that somebody would brush the dust off this old scarehead.

From Time Magazine Archive

Shying off the scarehead name of Romanoff, he posed as a Fox Film Co. executive.

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