Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their dexterous hands and feet they were grouped with the Primates by early taxonomists. The unsettling resemblance of bats to humans is readily apparent in many of the book's pictures. Such resemblances have overheated imaginations for centuries. Gargoyles, those batlike grotesqueries designed to draw off water and scare the devil from cathedrals in the Middle Ages, were undoubtedly inspired by ths real things that hung timidly in medieval spires...
...there was a disgraceful episode involving bogus medicine. A case of transparent quackery, Dianetics organizations were marketing a "Special Anti-Radiation Compound" (also good for incipient cancer) at the height of the A-bomb scare of the 50's. The tablets, called Dianazene, were seized by the Food and Drug Administration and found to contain only vitamins and minerals-certainly not a sufficient defense against cancer or radioactivity. Apparently, however, little came of the affair and Dianazene hasn't been heard of again...
...Viet Cong suddenly seemed intent on holding captured journalists remains unknown. The leading speculation is that the Communists hope to scare journalists away from reporting their activities in the border area. Intense diplomatic efforts are being made for the release of all ten captives, and North Vietnamese representatives in Paris have agreed to make inquiries...
Heisler, one of the two Crimson golfers who won both his matches, did it by the narrowest of margins. Columbia's Dan Basarich gave him the biggest scare, taking the match all the way to the 18th before losing one-up. Quaker Lee Burke wasn't much easier, falling on the 17th...
...inflow of CIA agents onto the island, talk of militarism seems like a classic case of projection. The simple fact is that Cuba faces war with the United States. With the world's biggest military machine laying Asian countries flat and giving military aid ?? Haiti, Brazil, and Greece, scare stories about Cuban militarism are so much hypocrisy. Not many Cuban exiles seem too concerned about the militarism of General Abrams or General Dynamics...