Word: scares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...faced Stephen S.J. Hall, vice president for administration, and his computer, all working together to shut down the planes and gas stations and steam heat in Harvard Houses. The 1973-74 energy crunch didn't leave Harvard's children stranded or shivering, of course. But it gave them a scare...
...When I used to look at those height and weight charts it used to scare me because I weighed so little. I still catch a lot of flack. I'm constantly being called tooth pick, birdlegs and other such names," he said...
...there were plenty of other things to do when chit-chat about old prep school buddies and blustering predictions about the next day's games began to pall. You could always just watch. Or you could get drunk, if the jostling, six-deep crowd at the bar didn't scare you off (and it usually didn't). Or you could blow your money on roulette and backgammon. You could fox-trot to a three-man band, complete with a black pianist playing "As Time Goes By." Or you could be interviewed by The New York Times...
Your story "Coping with Cancer" [Oct. 14] is full of the kind of scare words that contribute to the widespread panic and misapprehension about breast surgery. That "all women feel mutilated by a mastectomy" is simply not true. I've had two such operations and feel no more "mutilated" than if I'd lost an abscessed front tooth...
...crony of Lyndon B. Johnson and former Governor John Connally. Erwin has really run the 16-campus university for more than a decade. Four years ago, for example, he personally fired Liberal Philosopher John Silber as dean of Austin's College of Arts and Sciences, telling him, "You scare the hell out of the incompetents above you." Silber went on to become president of Boston University, and more than a dozen other top scholars left Texas soon after he departed...