Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...intention was to scare people," said a San Juan police spokesman of Hector Escudero Aponte. But when the kitchen worker at the labor-troubled Dupont Plaza hotel ignited a container of cooking fuel atop a stack of furniture boxes in the hotel ballroom on New Year's Eve, he set off a conflagration that killed 96 people. Police said Escudero admitted his role in the second worst hotel fire in U.S. history after witnesses led investigators to him. He was accused of 96 counts of murder, as well as charges of arson and conspiracy. The next day authorities arrested Armando...
...longer a problem, that it was "abolished by the movement," it continues to run rampant across the face of America. From jewelers in Washington, D.C. who refuse to admit Black teenagers to their stores because they associate color with crime, to white college students who don sheets to scare off their Black peers, to a white community that tolerates the murder of a Black man because he was "caught" in their neighborhood, we see that bigotry flourishes. If we look to our past, to King's legacy, we cannot but understand how great a leap backward this...
Neither game of the road trip was close. The Crimson's only scare came against RIT when, after holding a 3-0 lead late in the third period, the squad allowed a pair of goals before time...
...more than a mile of hydraulic tubing. The major airlines are spending as much as or more than before on maintenance of their fleets. But to deal with any carrier that lacks the will or money to meet the Government's stiff standards, FAA must have enough inspectors to scare the corner cutters and punish the violators. Yet while the volume of traffic has exploded, the Reagan Administration's early budget cutting produced a reduction in the number of FAA inspectors from 1,748 to 1,494. Only in the past three years has the force been rebuilt...
...history of love, conflict and eccentricity. The chemistry of rehearsals has lately been altered, for instance, by the absence of a popular soprano, who lives someplace called Katydid Lane and who is celebrated for crawling around her living room in her nightgown lest her appearance in the picture window scare off visiting deer. The chemistry is also different because Ethel Brandon, who directed the choir for 38 years, is now back in the congregation after an illness, a 90-year-old soprano belting out The Church Triumphant...