Word: scared
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Before al-Qaeda, before the anthrax scare, there was Aum Shinrikyo. The mysterious cult, based on distortions of the tenets of Buddhism and Hinduism, attracted tens of thousands of followers in Japan and around the world. Asahara, its founder, was an intelligent misfit who claimed he could levitate himself and who appeared regularly on the TV talk-show circuit. Then, on a sunny March morning in 1995, followers of the doomsday cult, in an apparent attempt to create mayhem and distract police investigating their secretive chemical-manufacturing operation, quietly used the tips of umbrellas to puncture plastic bags filled with...
...across the ocean, a war—the consequences of which nobody really knew—had begun in Korea, and a communist scare traveled fast through American life...
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Gravely concerned by the dilemmas that confronted academia, Conant addressed the red scare in his final report...
Recently, however, the Crimson (5-7, 0-5 Ivy) had shown signs of turning things around. Harvard had clawed back from a 6-0 deficit to give No. 13 UMass a scare last Wednesday, and put together its best outing of the season against No. 11 Yale, last weekend, completely outplaying the Bulldogs but ultimately falling...