Word: scarely
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Playing seven matches over three days this weekend, the racquetwomen gave perennial dynasty Princeton its worst scare in years and finished second in the Howe Cup competition in New Haven, Conn...
...misadventure in Vietnam? Can it be that we truly do not realize the extent and the meaning of American involvement in Iran? The idea that it will take another war like the one in Indochina, another 50,000 U.S. lives, to cure our shortsightedness, our false zealotry, should scare every American...
Lannon's budget message urged the adoption of the drastically reduced "2 1/2 budget" immediately, presumably in order to scare the public and the legislature into allowing modification of the controversial tax cut, which passed overwhelmingly in November...
...might have thought Three Mile Island would be sufficient--after all, we came to the brink of meltdown, about 30 minutes away by most accounts. But it didn't scare America nearly enough. Nobody died at Three Mile Island, and that slogan is the measure of what it will take to stop nuclear power--a death, and since nuclear catastrophes are by nature all or nothing experiences, many deaths. Sooner or later, eastern Nevada, or central Mississippi, or even southern Massachusetts, will watch a valve fail and a core melt down. A lot of people will evacuate...
...pond. His are half a foot long and he attends them carefully. That afternoon a saltwater bird, a gray tern, was circling the fish, and Reagan moved quickly toward the pond. Annoyed, he began tossing stones at the bird each time it landed on the water but could not scare it off. In the past he had come across kingfishers, he said, diving down and spearing his fish, but he had never seen a saltwater bird here. "Bang! Bang!" he yelled several times, and eventually the tern flew back toward the ocean as a satisfied Reagan stared upward...