Word: frightening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Others made machines that could fly and machines that could think, discovered a mold that conquered infections and a molecule that formed the basis of life. There were people who could inspire us with a phrase: fear itself, tears and sweat, ask not. Frighten us with a word: heil! Or revise the universe with an equation...
...many years, but especially during the 1990s, as gays have won more power, Falwell has used language harshly to frighten millions of dollars from donors. Last weekend Falwell apologized for such statements. The occasion for Falwell's soul searching was an unprecedented meeting between 200 of Falwell's supporters and 200 gay people of faith. Falwell agreed to break bread with them after several talks with the Rev. Mel White, a 60-year-old gay activist who runs Soulforce, an ecumenical gay group. White and Falwell used to be pals; White, a former filmmaker and writer for conservative causes, ghostwrote...
With the success Harvard has had this year, none of these numbers should frighten it. After all, if it can survive a hurricane, why should it be afraid of an overgrown...
...discipline and experience among the Americans, who had been badly shocked by the North Korean assault. "The first U.S. units into Korea were not much more than a mob in uniform," says Bernard Trainor, a military scholar and retired three-star Marine general who fought there. "They'd frighten quickly, and when they'd come under fire, they'd panic." But there was far more terror under the arches. "It was the worst hell that I could imagine," says Park Sun Yong, who was 23 at the time. The creek ran red with blood. Park's two-year-old daughter...
Taken as a trend, these optimistic titles frighten me. They are the product of a stock market that has gone higher, faster, than just about anyone expected. It's natural to project the recent past to the future. But it's also natural for things to change. Long periods of disappointment have followed long periods of heady market gains at least twice this century...