Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Advice. Powell's slur drew an angry and immediate riposte from the Labor Party. "If Powell has evidence of traitors in government departments," said Home Secretary James Callaghan, who oversees British internal security, "he has not made any approach to me. If this is more than a smear scare, I must ask him to come to me at once." But Heath, who in 1968 expelled Powell from his Shadow Cabinet because of his racial views, refused to censure Powell for fear of provoking a split in the Tories. Many theorized that Powell, foreseeing a Tory defeat at the polls...
...work, the Sidney Furie film During One Night, and Hollywood followed. By the end of her stay there, the bottom pinchers and a California crime scare had reduced her to sleeping with a tear-gas gun under her pillow. She was also scared off by the proffered parts, some of the available co-stars ("I had never acted opposite a brick wall before"), and the long-indenturing contracts proposed by two studios. After five months, she headed home with nothing to show but a 30,000-word journal, a real-life Nathanael West work that is too libelous to publish...
Gibson himself mentions race only defensively, protesting his opponent's scare tactics; needing white votes, he emphasizes instead the city's sagging "quality of life" and refers to Addonizio's indictment often enough to keep the issue alive and damaging. His two principal aides, one an editor of a research service, the other a 21-year-old Princeton University senior, are white. Half his estimated $100,000 campaign fund comes from Newark's white business establishment, and so does the rented air-conditioned Lincoln Continental in which he campaigns. The business community's support...
...espionage ship, escorted by jet fighters and warships, had been sunk in the Yellow Sea. "Officers and men of the Korean Peoples' Army," said one report,"instantly sent to the bottom of the sea the enemy's armed spy ship, which intruded deep into the coastal waters." Scare headlines sprouted around the world, stirring memories of the North Korean capture of the U.S. electronic intelligence ship Pueblo in January 1968. Had a similar incident taken place...
...students, requiring 15 of them to leave, it ruled that student demonstrators did not have to be warned that their actions were illegal in order to be prosecuted for them. In a situation where peaceful demonstrations could easily erupt into violence, the effect of this latest ruling was to scare students out of political activity and stifle legitimate dissent...