Word: scares
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...however, Penn battled back to garner a 66-65 win, but it would be the team's biggest scare all regular season. Penn went on to become the first Ivy League team in 10 years to make it to the second rund of the NCAA tournament...
...Linguistics concentrators get a scare after faculty members announce that the Department of Linguistics will soon assume committee status, potentially eliminating any formal linguistics degree programs. Students succesfully fight the decision and University officials rescind their ruling...
...continued its high level of play in its next game against Princeton when, in losing, 21-10, it gave the defending league champs a big scare. As the crowd filtered out that day to watch the Head of the Charles races, one student said, excitedly: "If we can scare Princeton, think what we can do to Yale in The Game...
Stephen Wechsler '49 was drafted to participate in the Korean War in 1951, at the height of the "Red scare." Because he feared persecution for his involvement in leftist groups while at Harvard and afterward, he lied about his Communist activities when faced with the loyalty oath required of all draftees under the McCarran...
...South Africans is fear of crime. The pre-election bombings failed to shatter the elections partly because violence is already out of control in black shantytowns and white suburbs alike, where burglaries, carjackings and robberies are everyday events. The incidents often have nothing to do with politics, and they scare everyone. Mandela may be planning something like a law-and-order crackdown: he was an advocate of the state of emergency that was imposed in Natal province last month, and he has been talking more and more about enacting strict gun- control regulations. Right-wing whites and township gangs...