Word: scaree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...human costs and the social costs (of the case) to the country in connection with McCarthyism, in connection with the stimulus for this second Red Scare, were dreadful. The divisions in the intellectual community could have fought McCarthy much more cohesively if it hadn't been as divided as it was over this case, over this symbol of how far you go and whether you believe Alger Hiss or you don't believe Alger Hiss. People instead of collecting themselves to battle HUAC and McCarthy and any excesses of the executive branch were busy arguing in the prints over...
Still, Legionnaires' Disease continued to take its toll. Though evidence implicating the Bellevue Stratford has always been circumstantial at best-for one thing, not all the victims were guests -it was enough to scare off many patrons. Since the summer, the occupancy rate of the "Grand Old Lady of Broad Street," as Philadelphians affectionately call it, had dipped to a disastrous 8% -and losses climbed to $10,000 a day. Even such gestures as last week's symposium did not help. Indeed, the meeting was really more like a wake. At week's end the Bellevue Stratford...
Students upended from their lifestyles, such as the twice-harrassed Eliot residents (bomb scare and fire alarm) or the brawl-marred Leverett and Lowell House members, sensed their predicaments to be strictly Yale-weekend related...
...Herald is still vulnerable to charges of sensationalism. In its first revamped Sunday edition, the Herald's lead headline read: "15 State Firms May Move Out If Flat Rate Voted." Until then, the Herald's stories about the various state referenda questions had been superficially balanced, but the scare headline destroyed that. The story was based on a prediction from a vice president of the First National Bank of Boston, who declined to name the firms he said told him they would leave the state if a proposition mandating uniform electric rates passed on November...
...fired-up Cornell offense gave Yale a scare last Saturday as the Big Red ran rampant for a total of 440 offensive yards, but the Eli defense stood firm. Yale prevailed...