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Word: scarier (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...whole family with its homey, homogenized grandeur; U.S.F. and I.O.A. are aimed at the 9- to 15-year-olds, too hip for the Magic Kingdom but still young enough to tolerate a week's vacation with their parents. As consumers, these kids are warier. So the coasters are scarier, the flume rides hairier. Even I.O.A.'s Cat in the Hat ride, tailored for kids, may upset some young stomachs with its gyrations. Disney soothes, like a kindly grandma taking the toddlers for an afternoon stroll. Universal rattles and rocks; it is Bart Simpson baby-sitting Maggie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thrill Park | 5/31/1999 | See Source »

...improved each time he's run that event this year," co-captain Joe Ciollo said. "When he's on a roll, he's pretty much unstoppable. What's even scarier is that he wasn't that satisfied with his time...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gyorffy Second at Penn Relays | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...improved each time he's run that event this year," co-captain Joe Ciollo said. "When he's on a roll, he's pretty much unstoppable. What's even scarier is that he wasn't that satisfied with his time...

Author: By Bryan Lee, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Gyorffy Takes Second at Penn Relays | 4/26/1999 | See Source »

...cross set aflame by men in white sheets is surely terrifying. But here's something possibly scarier: an Internet-connected, media-savvy gang of racists who cloak their members in suits and their rhetoric in mainstream politics. In 1999 which really sounds worse--a white supremacist with a club or one wielding a law degree...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trading White Sheets For Pinstripes | 3/8/1999 | See Source »

...Antichrist has "666" on either his forehead or his right hand. It turns out that the hair on my right hand, if you squint at it as if it were one of those 3-D posters, spells out "666." Even scarier, the Sybiline Oracles say the Antichrist will become a popular world leader who secretly harbors sympathy for the devil--a song I own on CD by both the Rolling Stones and Jane's Addiction. And a Polish website states he will be "wonderfully clever, talented and beautiful to look at." Eerie...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Antichrist Like Me | 2/1/1999 | See Source »

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