Word: scares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...were also being raised about Schmidt's handling of the matter. The flap erupted when it seemed that Carter was going to cancel production of the neutron weapon because, among other things, it had received no public support from the West German government. In the face of a scare campaign against the "inhuman" warhead that was skillfully fanned by Moscow, Schmidt apparently would not risk backing the weapon openly, although he did so privately. While the President eventually made no decision-he neither authorized the weapon's development nor definitively dropped it-the episode triggered a political flurry...
Notices to 3,300 colleges and universities, plus a wire-service story, brought the limericks rolling in. "The limerick," explained Rue, "is a non-threatening art form. People will write a limerick when poetry would scare the hell out of them." Members of the Mohegan community got together for one ten-hour limericking marathon to choose 86 finalists for Asimov...
Handcuffing the visitors from Huntington Ave. on just six hits--five of them singles and none of them coming after the fifth inning--Clifford pitched the Crimson to its 13th, his second triumph, a 4-0 victory. His biggest scare came in that fifth frame, when Northeastern had runners on first and third with two outs, but alas, it proved to be nothing more than a false alarm. The next batter, you see, flied to right...
...Center clinic on Manhattan's East 60th Street. They do not speak to each other on the crowded train. That whole week, for that matter, they have spoken little about the abortion. "I figured she was upset or something and she didn't want to scare me," Stacy says later of her mother...
Thinking back to those childhood scare stories (Want some candy, little boy? Your daddy sent me to get you. Get in.), I turned tail and ran, for the second time that day. And I don't flee all that often, under normal circumstances. My friend cruised by two minutes later and whisked me off to safety and the comforts of a home away from home...