Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scare stories about China that circulated in the '60s, especially during the brief ride of the Red Guards, was that Maoism had flung out the past: 3,000 years of willow-pattern tranquillity overthrown, Confucius and Mencius consigned to the paper shredder, and the arts of the ancestral dynasties-Chou and Han, T'ang and Sung, Ming and Chi'ing-abandoned as relics of decadent feudalism, replaced by the cast-concrete colossus of Mao or the agitprop poster of beaming, eupeptic tractor drivers exceeding their norm in Szechwan province...
...There is also the possibility that Congress will enact a law that would break up the big oil companies along functional lines. Currently, such legislation stands only a slim chance of passing. But if this winter brings fuel oil shortages or next summer brings a repetition of the gasoline scare, sentiment could swing in favor of such...
...July 1-22 Harvard crime picture includes two armed robberies, two attempted armed robberies, three assaults, 29 bicycle thefts, 12 cases of vandalism, one exhibitionist, one bomb scare, and 55 larcenies...
...were ready with mighty rhetorical flourishes. "The consumer must not unknowingly be placed in a position of playing a life-or-death game of Russian roulette when it comes to the food he eats," said the prosecutor. Bon Vivant's lawyer answered that such a charge amounted to "scare tactics designed to get a decision based on passion." The prosecutor promised to bring in "perhaps three dozen" microbiologists to prove his case. Bon Vivant's principal owner, Mrs. Maria Paretti, insisted that the food was perfectly safe, and added a little mysteriously, "Perhaps we could give...
...Coburn's mercy, the crumbling self-images which they are struggling to maintain through his promised largesse, is never explored. The events on the yacht pass through their minds without triggering a trace of self-realization. Their lives are framed as veneer on a tricky plot. Unable to scare up interest in its pursuit of a killer, and without the commitment to analyze its characters, Sheila goes down flashily, like a luxury liner, overloaded with champagne...