Word: scarier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...talk about "the December scenario." The opening act will take place during the Congress of People's Deputies that begins this week. Yeltsin's opponents are expected to launch an all-out offensive to restrict his personal authority, reverse his main policies and remove his key ministers. In the scarier versions of the scenario, the maneuvers against the Russian government could be a prelude to a parliamentary upheaval or even a putsch...
Carter was an even scarier prospect. It wasn't the hostages in Iran that got to me. It was the fact that he was nuclear physicist. Living within the evacuation zone of Three Mile Island, which had come to a near meltdown a little over a year before the election, convinced me that we didn't want anyone who understood nuclear power in the White House--they wouldn't be afraid of it. Even a year later, we were telling "glow in the dark" jokes. (Some mothers "wore combat boots" in childhood epithets. In our jibes, mothers "fished for three...
...thought "Pat's Towing Service" would be a big parking lot with hundreds of impounded cars stretching all the way to Framingham. But the reality was even scarier. The towing operation is housed in a very gothic-looking brick building that looks like something out of "The Munsters. "The interior of the building is dark and oily. Broken down and smashed automobiles line the entry. And then you meet...
When he blazed to Broadway stardom and a Tony Award in 1969 playing an embittered drug addict in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?, Al Pacino showed a menacing fire. Three years later, in the most memorable of his six Oscar- nominated film roles, he revealed an even scarier core of ice as a Mafia don in the making in The Godfather. His intelligence, energy, aura of command and eerie humor should have made him America's leading classical actor. Instead, his career has been one of ample accomplishment but unfulfilled promise...
...This is scarier: viruses have a nasty habit of getting out of control of the virus-makers. Three years ago, a Cornell hacker futzing around with his PC accidentally unleashed the Internet Worm, a pseudo-virus that stunned its creator by running roughshod across the country...