Word: scaree
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Pentagon propaganda shop, and once, at the Navy's request, wrote and published a book under a cold war nom de guerre-the purported first-person account by a Russian naval commander of his threatening undersea exploits in a Soviet submarine. Its aim was to scare readers enough to encourage larger congressional appropriations for the Navy...
...Well, yes, Tom, but this outrageous behavior on the part of the President is enough to scare anyone out of the shadows...
...Goddamn. I have just been out here tonight trying to shoot me a few foxes, having enough troubles of my own without all your friggin' flashers and sirens and running around tonight to scare...
...contrast, our present distrust of Washington centers around such issues as the discovery of the "credibility gap", not the Red scare; it is difficult to see how preference for escalation could be associated with a disbelief in government casualty figures and progress reports. This fact leaves Professor Modigliani at a loss; he implies we must hold our breath till direct empirical evaluation of the Vietnam trust-distrust factor is possible. In the meantime, at least one interpretation deserves investigation...
What is unique to this particular "credibility gap," not the Red scare; extraordinary stridency of public reaction to it, is that it comes during a time when this country is locked in combat with its mortal enemy--Communism. In other words, the present controversy is primarily due not to the revelation of the gap itself, but to the revelation that government deceptions serve to cover up Communist encroachment which might eventually pose a threat to an unaware public. And this supposed threat need not be solely military--the very thought, for example, of such a defiantly anti-American ideology triumphing...