Word: scareful
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...with an unlighted cigar and a Tab during a recent interview, may be the right guy with the right idea at the right time. A graduate of Yale law school, he founded the irreverent monthly American Lawyer at age 28 and managed almost from the start to throw a scare into the close-knit legal profession--as well as into his own staff. (A former reporter recalls Brill emerging from his office roaring, "I'm gonna make somebody cry!") Later he created Court TV, which earned high marks for its coverage of the O.J. Simpson trial and other high-profile...
...sealed back doors, knives, rifles and a semi-automatic. The cabin was found stocked with guns, knives, whips, shackles and night vision glasses. It was equipped with closed circuit TV and the Windows were painted black. The detectives believe that my coach's plan was to knock me unconscious, scare off my mother and take me there...
...last month. Mitch had said no, Woodard says, but then on the bus ride home from school the afternoon before the fatal assault, Drew approached Mitch again. "Mitch told me he never meant to hurt anybody and he didn't take specific aim," says Woodard. "He just meant to scare 'em, I guess. But then something went terribly wrong." She learned of the shooting from two back-to-back phone calls. "Don't you know?" demanded the first caller. Then her son Monte, 11, rang: "Mom, you have to come get me. Mitchell shot some kids...
...sometimes been like this: passionate, premeditated, but maybe driven by anxiety more than anything else. As a society, we tend to be nervous about knowledge, especially that which concerns the very building blocks of existence. Genetic engineering is exactly the kind of vague, little understood subject that can scare people with its Orwellian implication...
After surviving the eight-inning scare and a scoreless ninth, the Crimson bats finally heated up in extra innings...