Word: scarier
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...victory to be had. David was defying Goliath, a Goliath that had held the world in fear for a half-century. It bred a creepy sense of things coming unhinged, of supposed verities turned upside down, of heroes and villains switching roles, of future dangers that looked all the scarier because it was hard to tell which scenario to fear the most...
...violence? But this was not the typical child murder, the experts rushed to explain, not an outburst of uncontrollable rage turned accidentally fatal. This was cold calculation. Parents who began the week trying to explain to their own children about Stranger Danger ended it having to explain something far scarier...
...raining, even pouring, but we went to the stadium anyway. It really made no sense, and we knew it, so thick were the forecast bands of precipitation. But with the scarier storm of a players' strike on the horizon, to neglect the tickets in our possession seemed suicidal...
...surprised? -- still has masters. These new barbarians at the gates of international commerce may have the geeky, high- water-pants look of the typical math grad student, and they may caress their Sun Microsystems workstations rather than I-got-mine mobiles. But nearly everyone agrees that they are even scarier than the gunslingers. They are "math jockeys," "nerds," "pop eyes," "quarks," "techies." Call them quants, for quantitative analysts. They are odd birds indeed, the field biologist discovers, and . . . Hark, here...
...third game proved scarier, though, as Dartmouth battled back to beat the Crimson 15-9, for the squad's first loss to the Big Green since anyone can remember...