Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Harvard held on in the top of the eighth as B.U.'S leadoff hitter popped to short. The next B.U. bitter, however, hitting cleanup, put a scare into the batwomen as she tripled. Luckily the Crimson survived the threat when the next two Terriers flied out to right fielder Mary McKinnon...
While the Girl Scout cookie incidents have not inspired the type of national scare caused by the Tylenol deaths, several communities have taken precautionary action. The Maine state agriculture department has asked Girl Scout officials to postpone further sales and deliveries of cookies until a warning sheet can be printed and distributed with the packages. In the St. Louis area, where eight cases of tampering have been confirmed, the Girl Scouts have offered refunds on roughly 1.5 million boxes that have already been delivered and sold for $2.6 million. The organization's St. Louis council, the largest...
...attacks on small foreign ships were a calculated effort to bring international pressure to find a resolution to the four-year-old war. Said the officer: "Saddam Hussein doesn't want to do much damage for fear of alienating Washington and other foreign powers. But he wants to scare everybody into getting him peace...
...fact, Iraq had already introduced an even deadlier scare: the use of chemical warfare against Iran. Last month Washington publicly condemned the use of mustard gas by Iraq against Iranians. Last week U.S. officials said they have evidence that Iraq is using nerve gas on the battlefield. A West German firm, officials said, has supplied Iraq with laboratory equipment that can produce the nerve gas. The Administration embargoed five chemical compounds essential in producing the gas from being shipped to either Iraq or Iran, but officials concede that most of the compounds are available on the world market. A State...
Seeing Red reveals a history of the Communist party in America long obscured by the Red Scare. In the 1930s Communists stood at the front of the picket lines for unions, unemployment insurance, Social Security and civil rights. Although responsible for much social and political change, communists never revealed their alliance to the Party. They could lose their jobs and all of their gains as organizers and union leaders if people knew their politics. Nevertheless, they worked on, steadily recruiting and organizing strikes. They believed in a methodology that would make the American Dream a reality...