| 单词 | scare-story |
| 释义 | > as lemmasscare-story scare-line n. a sensational announcement upon a newspaper poster; similarly in scare-headline, scare-letter, scare-novel, scare-politics, scare-report, scare-story, etc. ΘΚΠ society > communication > journalism > journal > parts and layout of journals > [noun] > headline > types of subhead1744 side head1822 side heading1836 subheading1842 spread head1872 scare-head1887 cross-head1888 scare-line1892 scare-heading1894 cross-heading1898 one-liner1904 streamer1909 banner1913 screamer1926 drophead1930 1892 J. Kirkland Story of Chicago i. xxxii. 381 The newspapers blazed with what are technically called ‘scare headlines’. 1907 Westm. Gaz. 25 Mar. 9/3 When we members want to stimulate our jaded senses we go into the street and read the scare-lines on some of the posters. 1912 R. Kipling Uses of Reading in Bk. of Words (1928) 87 The other made bad worse by shouting what was no better than a newspaper scare head-line. 1960 Guardian 11 Apr. 1/1 Rumours circulated..that the Government might introduce martial law, but this appeared to have been purely a scare story. 1977 P. Johnson Enemies of Society vii. 94 The technique of the lobby is to put out a scare-story, and then move on quickly to a fresh one when scientific investigation proves the first one unfounded. 1979 Time 8 Jan. 40/1 The scare stories are based on phony evidence or plain prejudice. < as lemmas |
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