Word: scares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Finally, there is a proposed law to ban flip-top cans and place a five-cent deposit on most soda and beer cans and bottles. Notwithstanding the aggressive advertising campaign the container interests have waged against the bill, using what amounts to scare tactics, it would be a significant step toward reducing the litter of metal and glass that is beginning to blanket the landscape...
...Universal-thinking about other big-animal properties, like Kong. Universal also entered into negotiations with RKO and thought they had a deal when the sale to Dino was suddenly announced. Hurt feelings-and lawsuits-ensued. Both sides advertised start-shooting dates of Jan. 15 of this year, thinking to scare the other off. Says De Laurentiis: "We need four months to get ready to shoot, but I gotta show Universal that I'm ready when they...
...rash of scare headlines had predictable consequences, emptying crowded clinics everywhere. In New York City, only 7,500 people showed up a day after the first deaths were reported, compared with 21,000 on the previous day. Irritated by what he called the press's "body count" mentality, Dr. Theodore Cooper, HEW's assistant secretary for health, snapped: "Someone, I hear, dropped dead in South Carolina after reading the consent form [required of all those to be inoculated]. Should that be attributed to the swine-flu program...
...inevitable as grease in a garage, he said. He shrugged off many of the complaints -but not all. Said he: "It helps us see the flaws. Jimmy's going to have to keep the pressure on Ford. It might mean a few mistakes, but that can't scare us. If Abe Lincoln hadn't kept shoving, the South might have won the war. His generals all wanted to sit still-the way Ford sits in the White House...
...final seconds, the ball was loose in the goal mouth and the Crimson bench exploded repeatedly thinking Harvard had scored, but it was not to be. Wesleyan survived the scare, and was a 2-1 victor when the final gun sounded...