Word: scares
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...warning, aimed at cautioning people about bombs, had the effect of promoting a series of bomb scares. The most noteworthy such scare was at the house of Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles, who, forced to evacuate his house, went out to supper in his bedroom slippers as the Boston bomb squad investigated a package that had arrived at his house...
...carving knife, walked to the door of his mother's kitchen and called her by her nickname. "Come here, Pooh," he said several times, holding the knife where she could see it. "I thought my mom was possessed by the devil," Greg now recalls. "My plan was to scare the devil out of her, literally." Gloria ran into the bedroom. The Allers began barricading their bedroom door at night. Bob and Greg argued at one point, and Greg kicked his father and threatened to kill him. On Jan. 23 he packed his things and moved out. He was flunking...
...self-fulfilling hypothesis. If you scare people enough and make them believe the world is crumbling around them, at some point they'll start reacting. The news media have helped set the tone of rabid crime, and the politicians just pick up the theme and go with the flow...
Wait a minute. Except for Jurassic Park, whose PG-13 rating is meant to scare off the very young, these are all what used to be called adult movies. Wasn't this supposed to be the Summer of Boys? Weren't the studios primed for pint-size blockbusters about 12-year-old emotional overachievers? Well, yes -- and the kids are at the movies too. Free Willy (a boy and his whale) has struck a heart chord; this inexpensive tearjerker will earn about $80 million. Rookie of the Year (a boy and his fastball) and Dennis the Menace...
Harvard Police Lt. Lawrence J. Murphy, who is in charge of the department while Chief Paul E. Johnson undergoes medical treatment, acknowledged that this scare was not as serious as those at the Science Center or the Knowles home...