Word: scared
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...things might come to a head. Then we noticed one of the locals lifting his shirt and reaching down towards his pants as if he was grabbing a gun, like it was Menace II Society. It turned out he wasn’t packing, but was just trying to scare us with his imaginary gat. After realizing that we wouldn’t be shot, my friend had had enough of their yammering, and he shoved one of them. Now the rumble was on, and they started going after him. I was trying to step in and at least hold...
Parents and school principals are always trying to scare kids with the message that smoking pot will lead to harder drugs. Well, a study in the Journal of the American Medical Association suggests that the grownups may be on to something. By tracking 311 pairs of Australian twins (both fraternal and identical) in which one twin used marijuana before age 17 and the other did not, researchers have been able to show that early pot users are as much as five times more likely to use or abuse cocaine, heroin, hallucinogens, sedatives or alcohol...
...League there are so many close games,” Delaney-Smith said. “So a lot of teams think we’re beatable. Hopefully tonight will scare them...
...speed ranting and spends the interval complaining about his job. Three minutes with a man who smells like dirt and sulphur is an eternity. Of the seven men that I date, there are two I would like to get to know better. It would be three, but I scare off the cop with the sweet smile when I enthusiastically ask how many dead bodies he's seen. Well, now he knows what the hell's wrong with me. But at least I can keep a beat. If music be the food of love, then salsa be the messy leftovers...
...evening of the game, the Sharks break out of their desolation with such intensity that they seem to have trained on maotai liquor instead of boiled noodles. There is no sign of Okafor. If his name was floated merely to warn the Americans?"killing the chicken to scare the monkey," in the words of a Chinese proverb?the ploy has worked, at least for one night...