Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scare...
Despite the loss, the Crimson can hardly complain, as it threw a big scare into one of the best teams in the country. In so doing, the team nearly fulfilled Coach Bob Scalise's pre-season prediction that Harvard's enthusiasm and desire would make up for any talent deficiency...
...provinces they have won in the past four weeks by default. Hanoi is now said to regard the 1968 executions in Hué as an "error," and may avoid a repetition of them. But from the evidence, the chance of officially sanctioned bloodshed cannot simply be dismissed as a scare story...
...movies are sitting tighter these days than they have for some time. Hollywood went through scare periods when it was not clear what could be sold to the public, if anything. Old tyrants retired, sank and died; every year some old lion still in power was being proclaimed the last tycoon. Television killed the first set of old men, angry stockholders and ravenous conglomerates killed the second. Louis B. Mayer, the feared stable master of the great M-G-M dynasty, went under in 1951; Darryl F. Zanuck, truncheoning all comers, held out twenty years longer, finally going under with...
...Kissinger is angry at Israel for being unwilling to accept his idea for a non-belligerency substitute--a clause which would read similarly to non-belligerency but have less binding an effect--and that he is trying to give Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and his government a good scare. Apparently Kissinger and his sides have told newsmen that the Israelis were aware that non-belligerency would not emerge from this round of negotiations, and said they were prepared to go ahead with the talks anyway, on the premise that a settlement of any sort is better than none. Thus...