Word: scared
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...years since U.S. aviation began its most radical security overhaul, it doesn't take much to scare us and rekindle this question: Is our system really working? To some experts, the answer is no, and they point to Heatwole's actions as evidence. Saying he was committing civil disobedience to expose flaws in the nation's aviation-security system, Heatwole breached security six times over an eight-month period at Raleigh-Durham International and Baltimore/Washington International airports. He carried aboard contraband such as box cutters and a knife, along with bleach, reddish molding clay (which he hoped would be identified...
...other stuff, the games and the "talking" and the God knows what else, it doesn't scare her. It's an urban campus, she points out, in a busy downtown neighborhood. "They don't have a street corner where all the kids can hang out. Inside the computer is their street corner." She compares it to listening to the Grateful Dead when she was growing up in the 1970s, back when rock 'n' roll was still new and computers were safely confined to the fallout shelter. After all, she argues, all teenagers of every era have something that they...
After the scare, though, Hoff put the final nail in the coffin. Though he was turned away in the 37th minute on a breakaway in front of the goal—prompting him to throw up his hands in disgust—Hoff persevered and finally got the clinching score with just over a minute to play in the first half...
...town still set them up for the children. Oh, and when I was first House master, my then-5-year-old daughter helped decorate our residence for a Halloween open house, and she took enormous delight in the idea that what she was doing was going to scare the undergraduates. I think it really helped her get hold of her own fears about the holiday...
...voice calls out on a loudspeaker. “Folks, many of you are asking, are our haunted houses suitable for your children? Only you,” he proclaims with Smokey the Bear certainty, “can make that decision. We do aim to scare.” He goes on to boast that the museum is “full of London-made wax figures...