Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...played sporadically in both games and his progressive recovery promises good things to come in the midfield. 3) Clockwork passing and physical defense produced a first stanza that was "the best half we've played this year," according to Coach Bob Scalise. 4) Delaware gave the Crimson the biggest scare of its winning streak in making up deficits of 6-3 and 9-7, but the team shut the door in panic's face with a quick sudden death score...
...gaudy but insecure film, which is all flesh and flash, never truly passionate or frightening. These sequences, in this context, become tributes not so much to a nostalgically recalled genre piece, but to the movies' long since vanished powers of suggestion. In those days, wit was employed to scare the wits out of people, and it was possible to speak about the unspeakable without turning it into an absurdity through show-and-tell realism...
...precisely that kind of scare talk, whether emanating from the Kremlin or from the White House, that is galvanizing the nuclear-freeze advocates. For all the obvious reasons, they are uneasy about the military intentions of the Soviet Union. Unfairly or not, the Reagan Administration is also blamed for fueling the current jitters with loose talk?from the President on down?about the prospect of fighting a "limited nuclear war." Many Americans?including some with considerable expertise in the area?fear that their leaders are more comfortable than ever before with the thought of using nuclear weapons. "There is great...
...wanted to be on the losing side of an overkill gap. Wildly excessive, not to mention expensive, programs were justified on both sides in the interests of preserving a "balance of terror." Nonetheless, the nightmare of actual war receded somewhat into the subconscious of civilization. Partly because of the scare that Kennedy and Khrushchev had given the world over Cuba, the U.S. and the Soviet Union buckled down to the serious pursuit of agreements that would diminish the chances of nuclear war. With only modest successes and numerous stalls and setbacks, that effort continued in earnest until late...
Alan Riding of the New York Times, went because of repeated warnings from Salvadoran friends. At week's end eight journalists who drove up to inspect the site where the Dutch died had a scare that suggested the list could be taken more seriously. Armed men jumped out of a cattle truck, demanded identification and acted menacing. Said Photographer Susan Meiselas: "We all thought this...