Word: scares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rowen last month that default would be a "catastrophe," Ford phoned Rockefeller to protest that this tough language was too much. After the reprimand, Rockefeller did not use that no-no word again, but he continued to make the same points. Reminded last week that Ford had denounced as "scare talk" predictions that default would bring economic catastrophe, Rockefeller bobbed and weaved, then said: "I am just hoping that he is right...
...which the investigative arm of the Justice Department obtained information during this period, certainly one of the darkest in American history, the pressures--personal or political--applied which turned a large number of ordinary people into informers, are essential to an understanding of this second and devastating "red scare...
...INTERESTING ELEMENT of this last election was not the issues--the Independents said that there were none; the liberals used scare tactics, claiming that the Independents would end rent control and fire city manager James L. Sullivan...
Spokesmen for the New York and New Jersey pro-ERA groups, which represent more than 100 organizations, called their campaigns a heavily volunteer effort and charged opponents with using "scare tactics," "misstatements" and "lies...
...scare me like that. I'd lose at least my dog, and probably my wife. [Laughter...