Word: scares
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first marijuana law in the U.S. was passed by Congress in 1937. Use of the hallucinogen was then centered in New Orleans, and little was known about it. Scare stories about marijuana leading to a crime wave prompted Congress to provide stiff penalties: up to five years for any pot offense. Now the maximum is 40 years. No probation is allowed for second offenders and a minimum sentence of five years is mandatory. In most states, no difference was seen between pot and such other drugs as heroin and opium; all were usually lumped under the same general narcotic...
Squeeze & Scare. By fairly handy margins, the opposition chipped away with one amendment after another. One proposed by Indiana's Ross Adair cut $72 million from the Alliance for Progress. Alabama's John Buchanan easily trimmed $25 million from the contingency fund, which is used to meet unforeseen emergencies. House Armed Services Committee Chairman Mendel Rivers successfully moved to pare $60 million from military-assistance funds. An amendment sponsored by Illinois' Paul Findley bumped Poland from its cherished status as a favored nation in trade matters...
...million had already been chopped away from the Administration's bill. At 3:33 a.m., the legislation squeezed by on a vote of 202 to 194. As close as the vote was, opposition leaders had no intention of defeating the foreign aid bill entirely. Their aim was to scare the Administration, and that they did most successfully...
...Your article concerning the growing fear Negroes are inspiring among the white population fails to point out the very real and justified fear that black Americans have learned to live with in order to survive. I wonder if white Americans are frightened by the same things that scare us. Do they think we will lynch them? Burn their churches and homes? Sick our police dogs on them? Refuse to hire them? Or are they afraid that we might simply wish to be free from dependence and continued exploitation...
...widow woman, am a Negro, and I have to say the truth is I don't have anything to fear from white folks, but the colored boy hoodlums in my neighborhood scare me to death. You might as well be living in the Congo. The white folks in neighborhood stores where you get a little credit have moved and are moving away and property is not kept up and is ruined. I have to say we Negroes did it all. We destroyed a fine neighborhood that others built. We got to quit blaming others and depending on the Government...