Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only two real security scares before the story finally broke. The first came in 1973, when a labor dispute erupted between engineers and the mining complement on board the Glomar Explorer. The engineers resented the fact that the mining technicians, rather than the captain, really ran the ship. That dispute moved quietly into the courts. The second scare came shortly before the Glomar Explorer put to sea to salvage the submarine. A rash of burglaries of Hughes' company offices scattered across the West culminated in the early morning of June 5, 1974, in a break-in of Hughes...
...Saigon, the nightly curfew was advanced by two hours to 10 p.m.; even the most brazen street boys, prostitutes and soup vendors were prudently getting off the streets an hour before deadline. The capital was in no immediate danger. Yet as scare stories of Communist advances reached the city, many people began talking of leaving the country altogether. "Where do we go now?" asked Nguyen Thi Luong, an office worker who fled Hanoi in 1954. "Twenty years ago we came south. Now we're at the bottom and can't go any farther...
...singing group's politics are is typical of its small-mindedness. And for the Parts embassy to assert at the last minute that the group's association with the Communist Youth Organization Party of Chile made the singers members of the Communist Party shows that the old Red Scare tactics are still thriving...
...there simply have not been enough quality players to staff all the teams - the newcomers are already reaching for the top of the league. In fact, three of the four divisions are presently being led by expansion teams: Philadelphia, Vancouver and Buffalo, with pushy Los Angeles giving Montreal a scare in the fourth...
...miles from the gas station) stalk inexorably the big-time football jungle that lesser Eastern mortals never dare to enter. Six times in seven years they've played in bowls, and they've dumped Texas (Cotton, 1972), thrashed LSU (Orange, 1974) and given Oklahoma (Sugar, 1973) the Sooners' biggest scare in years...