Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Personally I admire the Italians for being able to do so much with so little. Why scare American tourists away from one of the world's most pleasant cities with a story that could as easily have been written about almost any American airport...
...make another General Billy Mitchell of Admiral Zumwalt? The admirals who oppose him are the same as the ones who wept when Mitchell's planes dropped dummy bombs on their battle wagons, the same as the ones who lined up the battle wagons at Pearl Harbor to scare the Japanese. They have always been guided by rigid stupidity. I don't believe the conflict is basically racial. It was the same in World War II with no blacks. If officers treat men justly and fairly, the men will respect them and carry out orders...
...Washington Hospital Center and calmly climbed into an empty bed. That stunt won him a brief stint in jail-but also the eventual integration of the hospital. If his bluster was good, his bluff was even better. Perhaps Hobson's most famous episode was the great rat scare. To dramatize the rodent problem in ghetto housing, he threatened almost daily to release hundreds of rats in fashionable Georgetown. He drove through Washington's black ghetto with a cage of rats strapped to the top of his station wagon, claiming he was going to a rat rally. In truth...
...social critic as poignant and shocking as the biting poetry of sylvia plath. Her portrait of identical twins stores at us not with the duality of nature's superior creation, but with the power to draw us into an interaction with their freak world; her portraits do not scare us away, but take us directly into a curious, unexamined world...
Princeton is terrible this year, but they still scare me. Last year, Harvard played its worst game and suffered its worst loss against Princeton. My freshman year. I bet $40 against my Princeton relatives and watched it go out the window in less than 10 minutes, as the Tigers scored the first three times they touched the ball. In the 1967 game, a favored Harvard team was massacred by Princeton...