Word: scared
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Over the past two weeks, one could hardly turn to the opinion page of any national newspaper without getting spooked by the frightful specter of partisan wrangling. The details of the scare story varied—here it was economic stimulus, there it was airport security legislation—but the underlying theme was always the same: the Bush administration and the Congressional GOP leadership are exploiting the current crisis to advance their political agendas...
...privately, Pusey’s patient dedication to “independence of thought and judgment” would ultimately lead him to rebuff McCarthy’s inquiries for the duration of the Red Scare...
Ultimately, Pusey was less afraid of McCarthy than he was of the mass conformity that the Red Scare encouraged. “What scared me,” he recalled years later, “was why the public was so scared about communism...
Roger Rosenblatt's commentary on Americans' unspecific fears was right on target [ESSAY, Oct. 22]. Thanks to the FBI's vague warning about imminent attacks, our nation has truly been compromised. We're told by our president to get on with our lives so that the terrorists' scare tactics do not overwhelm and paralyze us, but then we're smothered by a pillow of fear from the very government organization that's supposed to filter out unspecific threats. The media circus surrounding the FBI's pronouncements has placed us squarely in the bull's-eye of our own target...
...around the world is not knowing when the paucity of Japanese will end. Following the war in the Persian Gulf, Japanese tourists resumed overseas travel after about six months. This time, the method and targets of the attacks -- using passenger planes to fell renowned landmarks -- and now the anthrax scare, have chilled them far more...