Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...into an ebullient softshoe number, boasting of his car-parking skills; the mood lifts and lifts, and suddenly a clump of leotarded dancers inches and rolls onstage to join him, representing--incredibly--a car, white tires and all. Brown later plays a gas-meter reader whose pastime is to scare sunbathing housewives so that their bathing suit tops fall off; the conspiratorial grin with which he exits obviates any simpleminded sympathy...
Still it was Brown's big guns that put the Crimson away. With the Smith Center's large water polo court to emphasize the Bruins speed the hosts repeatedly victimized Harvard on picture-perfect break always. Coach Reed felt the scare his squad received in the early going whipped it into top form. Because Harvard is capable of playing as well they're capable of forcing us to shape up in case we start to make mistakes...
...casual course of events. Alarmed, the mind skates hurriedly to the ifs: If Tylenol, why not aspirin? If drugs, why not food? October is the month for Halloween, after all. The razor blade in the apple? The lamb chops, the soap, the Pepsis? We already had an eyedrop scare. Hasn't the water tasted funny lately...
...which comes to fairly tame conduct when one considers that after ten days of the scare, the motives, the scope and the murderer(s) remained unknown. Yet there is an astonishing amount of pure wide-eyed trust that people give their social structures, no matter how fragile they are shown to be. What the public has done in the face of this particular emergency is simply to shift its faith temporarily from the pillmakers and sellers to several other social institutions: the Government, the police, the media. These institutions are hardly those that the public always believes...
...million barrels per day, the IEA report concludes. It is not difficult to imagine the resulting escalation of international tension as countries scramble to obtain their energy needs. Nor is it hard to foresee the internal chaos another oil shortage will wreak on an unprepared nation. Soon the energy scare of the 70s may seem a mild prologue to the real crisis...