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Andover's own experience is enough to frighten the striped tie off the many prep school alumni who have confidently sent off their sons and their generous checks to their old schools for generations...

Author: By Evan W. Thomas, | Title: Prep School Blues | 2/16/1971 | See Source »

...Union Carbide has chosen to pursue a course of duplicity and intimidation, evidently designed...to frighten the people of the Marietta region into quiet submission," Nader said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard is a Major Stockholder Of Union Carbide, a Major Polluter | 2/1/1971 | See Source »

...frighten her and kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: Nader v. Nursing Homes | 12/28/1970 | See Source »

...nine miles, he was sprinting strongly. No wonder-Segal has competed in 14 of the last 15 Boston Marathons, usually finishing in the top 90. To keep in shape, he runs about ten miles every day despite a routine that would frighten most leisure-worshipping students...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: For Segal, Harvard-Yale Game Is Annual 'Schizophrenia Time' | 11/19/1970 | See Source »

...bookstore. Doris is the pussycat, a randy stray from New York's back alleys who has been in two television commercials, a movie entitled Cycle Sluts, and countless beds. By the time she gets through screaming at Felix, they are both evicted-Felix wearing a skeleton suit to frighten Doris out of the hiccups, Doris clad in her best crotch-length nightie with a pair of shocking-pink hands appliqueed on the breasts. Together they begin just the kind of odd courtship one would expect of two such urban animals. They claw, they scratch, they separate, they make...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Fur and Feathers Flying | 11/16/1970 | See Source »

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