Word: scaree
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...however, Penn battled back to garner a 66-65 win, but it would be the team's biggest scare all regular season. Penn went on to become the first Ivy League team in 10 years to make it to the second rund of the NCAA tournament...
Stephen Wechsler '49 was drafted to participate in the Korean War in 1951, at the height of the "Red scare." Because he feared persecution for his involvement in leftist groups while at Harvard and afterward, he lied about his Communist activities when faced with the loyalty oath required of all draftees under the McCarran...
...South Africans is fear of crime. The pre-election bombings failed to shatter the elections partly because violence is already out of control in black shantytowns and white suburbs alike, where burglaries, carjackings and robberies are everyday events. The incidents often have nothing to do with politics, and they scare everyone. Mandela may be planning something like a law-and-order crackdown: he was an advocate of the state of emergency that was imposed in Natal province last month, and he has been talking more and more about enacting strict gun- control regulations. Right-wing whites and township gangs...
Other politicians came and went, but Nixon was always coming back. By sheer endurance, he was the most important figure of the postwar era. Nixon put the country through some of its worst times, leading the red-scare politics of the 1950s, escalating the war in Vietnam in order to end it, trying with all his enormous energy and guile to defeat the legal processes that closed in on him during the Watergate scandal. Yet an outsize energy and determination drove him on to recover and rebuild after every self-created disaster that he faced...
...Everybody has great secrets," Waters says cheerfully, "and I want to know them all. I like to find things that can surprise me and confuse me and scare me and make me laugh." His current research involves the kinky pastime known as sploshing -- the erotic act of dumping a plate of food on your loved one. "When I hear about something like this," he says, "at first I'm shocked. And suddenly I feel very healthy." Waters' films have often made viewers feel healthy -- by default. The 1972 underground smash Pink Flamingos was about the "Filthiest People Alive" and climaxed...