Word: scares
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...original shelters were stocked with food, water, medicine and portable toilets in 1963 at the height of the Cold War scare. Because University officials were unwilling to pay for the stocking of the shelters and the Department of Civil Defense lacked funds, Boy Scouts were recruited to fill the 17 gallon water barrels...
Penn gave Cornell a scare coming back from a 17-0 deficit to lead 20-17 before giving up a last minute Cornell touchdown and slipped by Lehigh 30-27. Then last week, the Quakers woke up in the second half to edge probably the worst Princeton team in a decade...
This situation is characteristic of our culture. An Indian from a different culture following this same bird might find Huebler's movements ridiculous, for an Indian's purpose might be to kill the bird and he would move quietly so as not to scare the bird. Huebler's series of park pictures implies that the bird has been scared--a situation the Indian would find unlikely. For a Hopi Indian, who neither separates the event in time or space, there is neither the bird alone nor the call separated from the event. He would use one word for the whole...
...that anyone at the White House had "directed acts of sabotage, spying or espionage" against the Democrats and charged that the stories were based on "hearsay, character assassination, innuendo and guilt by association." Clark MacGregor, Nixon's campaign director, angrily denounced the Post in particular for using "huge scare headlines" and acting "maliciously" and with "hypocrisy" to link the White House to such political espionage. Uncharacteristically, the usually candid MacGregor did not allow newsmen to question him. Senator Robert Dole, the Republican National Chairman, accused McGovern and the Post of being "in a partnership in mudslinging...
LAST BOOKS READ: Script for the screen version of Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Primate Behavior of the Uprooted by Irwin DeVore and Oscar Handlin, and We Love You Bruins...