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Word: scares (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...while away several hours sightseeing. As he flew out of Cairo, a Secret Service agent's submachine gun-an Israeli-made Uzi-fell from a luggage rack aboard Kissinger's Air Force 707 and fired, wounding the agent slightly and setting off a momentary terrorist scare...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Seeking Peace Amid New Sounds of War | 10/21/1974 | See Source »

...they would fish for trout and salmon in its swollen waters. Today they keep themselves alive on beer, potatoes, bread and candy bars bought with bi-monthly welfare checks. In spite of a special concession from the Canadian government for unlimited hunting and fishing rights, fish have been scare this year on account of the protracted cold, and it's a lot easier to ride a Skidoo across the frozen river in mid-January to buy canned Irish stew than it is to go out and kill a moose...

Author: By Janny P. Scott, | Title: Indian Summer | 10/16/1974 | See Source »

Again and again the Crimson would harass the MIT side of the turf but did not get any solid shots off. A flurry of shots towards the end of the half gave MIT a scare but could not produce another goal. While Harvard had ten shots in the first half and five corner kicks, MIT was allowed seven shots on goal and one corner kick...

Author: By Efthimios O. Vidalis, | Title: Soccer Squad Starts '74 Season on Right Foot | 9/26/1974 | See Source »

...when I joined him for his roadwork, he ended a three-mile run along a quiet country lane by showing me how he will beat Foreman. There, at a deserted intersection, Ali started throwing jabs and combinations at me. Not close enough to reach me, but close enough to scare me." Taubman may have flinched from Ali's punches, but not from forecasting the challenger's downfall on Sept. 24. His prediction: "Foreman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Sep. 23, 1974 | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

...only way she can stay in the country is as the wife of an American citizen. The designer accepts the proposal, persuaded by the offer of a $25,000 fee and frequent flashes of cleavage from the other side of the table. After that comes the familiar crescendo of scare scenes. Parkins evaporates, but the bewitched Haskell traces her to a secluded-is there any other kind-mansion, where he is promptly zapped. That is followed by a defenestration, a complicated underworld search and a huge conflagration...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Bats in the Attic | 9/23/1974 | See Source »

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