Word: scaree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...biggest reason for the lack of Southern unionism is fierce employer resistance, backed often by local public opinion. In much of the South, "community development" is something close to a religion. Bosses and community leaders alike fear that unions will scare off new industries that the town is trying to lure...
...buses to prevent workers from going to their jobs in Cape Town. There, as in Johannesburg's Soweto, the tactic failed to disrupt business and industry seriously, but managed to intimidate many black workers. As one Johannesburg worker told Lee Griggs, TIME'S Africa bureau chief: "They scare me. This morning some young ones tried to make me stay in Soweto. 'Do not go,' they said. 'Today we march and we may get shot. You must stay home and be here to bury us.' Nobody ever said things like that in Soweto before...
...love this bionic apparition, neutrinos or no. Stanley Kubrick may have meant to convey this same space-subconscious analogy in 2001: A Space Odyssey, but he abstracted too much, and became boring. Tarkovsky doesn't; he clutches us in the gut with emotional ambiguities, and he is not using scare tactics. Hari, the returned wife, kills herself again, but Kelvin knows she is immortal and waits for her to come back to life. Wild convulsions announce her reanimation, and the picture of a woman helplessly wretching, jerking about plays for all the shock value it had in The Exorcist...
...spite of the scare caused by the mysterious disease that felled some legionnaires who had met in the city two weeks before (see MEDICINE), the congress expected to draw one million people, as many as did Philadelphia's July 4 festivities and the Chicago Eucharistic Congress of 1926. By contrast, the first congress of 1881 in Lille, France, was attended by only 800 people. That initial one was inspired by French Laywoman Marie Tamisier to foster devotion to the Eucharist and belief in Christ's "real presence" in the elements of bread and wine. Like the 40 subsequent...
Even though it was evident that you had the facts, the first few paragraphs were enough to scare off even the hardiest traveler. After all, who wants to find himself awash in $61 billion of film and disposable diapers...