Word: scareful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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SMOKING GUN If lung cancer, heart disease and stroke aren't enough to scare you off smoking, maybe this will. A study of 4,000 Danish men shows that mothers who smoke a pack or more a day are twice as likely to produce criminally violent sons. There even appears to be a dose response: those who smoked fewer cigarettes had less violent boys. Why the correlation? No one is sure, but chemicals in smoke may somehow damage the fetal brain...
...many cases make an epidemic? Survivors of the great polio plagues of the 1940s and '50s will never believe that in the U.S. the average toll in those years was "only" 1 victim out of every 5,000 people. Was that really all it took to scare the nation out of its wits, sending families scurrying in all directions--to the mountains, to the desert, to Europe--in vain hope of sanctuary...
...Wildcats gave the Crimson possibly its biggest scare of the season with just 4:22 left in regulation. UNH junior center Carisa Zaban got the puck in the right corner and walked along the goal line in front of the net, deked Springer with some impressive stickwork and sent the puck into the far corner of the goal...
Plastics are used in food packaging and in the medical environment today because they have a documented history of health and safety benefits not offered by most alternatives. Your readers deserve the facts, not scare tactics. RONALD H. YOCUM, PRESIDENT & CEO American Plastics Council Washington...
NIXON "I want you to scare him within an inch of his life...