Word: scared
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...What he said was meant to scare voters, period. It was way over the top and, I think, un-American." JOHN EDWARDS, Democratic vice-presidential candidate, reacting to Cheney's comment...
...WRITTEN 10 BOOKS IN FIVE YEARS. ARE YOU TRYING TO OUTDO STEPHEN KING? No, he's scaring people. I don't want to scare anybody. I just feel a sense of urgency ... to get a message out there. I've had obesity obliterate my family--it took my father early, and I've got two nephews over 500 pounds. I feel a sense of urgency to shake people up about that...
...from manipulating the market, driving share prices down so that they can later be bought at bargain rates. "I object to fluctuations caused by false rumors," Thirachai says. But with the SET index down this year by nearly 25%, some fear the attempt to muzzle market buzz will only scare off institutional investors and make matters worse. "The problem is that information, the media, is too tightly controlled by the government," says Sompop Manarungsan, an economics professor at Chulalongkorn University in Bangkok, "so rumor fills the vacuum." Information yearns to be free...
...laid bare. Dry, snapping noises can be heard across the grasslands as the animals crack the ribs of their prey to get to the vital organs. Coolly, with utter confidence, a mature lioness--the oldest of the seven-member pride--approaches. A 3-year-old male tries to scare her off with a snarl, but she lunges at him, baring her teeth and biting at his neck. After a modest show of resistance, he retreats and, in a final display of submission, turns tail and slinks off into the sunset. She takes his place at the kill, tearing chunks from...
...reflects on the Norwegian climate, joking that her family "ran around in the snow with sandals on." She pillories cross-cultural dating, dispensing sardonic tips on "how to pick up a Pakistani chick," and addresses her girlhood fear that the light mustache that appeared on her upper lip would scare off potential suitors. She was reassured by the fact that her mom had found a husband despite similar wisps of down, "but that was before I knew that Dad had been forced to marry her." Not everyone is amused. In an August 2002 article in the Aftenposten daily, anthropologist Marianne...