Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Hoping to anticipate the problem, some parents try to scare their children with lurid stories about drug addiction and highly pertinent reminders that mere possession of marijuana constitutes a felony. But teen-agers tend to regard the supposedly inevitable progression from pot to heroin as myth, and they scorn the marijuana laws as hypocritical. At the other extreme are a few parents who introduce their children to pot in the home in the same way that countless parents start their children drinking. One San Francisco attorney turns on all three of his children, including his six-year-old. Still other...
...alone gives the test of faith. Pope Paul stands with every Pope before him to remind the world that to live, no matter what the circumstances, brings honor and glory to the Creator. Perhaps if all Catholics were really Catholic, there would be less of a problem with population scare, for in conscience they would be directed to wait until they were capable of caring for offspring before they enter into holy matrimony: a simple solution for a lot of problems in any church...
...scare those seeking light diversion, it must be mentioned that the program also included-cultural uplift. The opera Die Meisterslinger, composed by the Proposition's music director, John Forster, collated musical strains lifted from numerous operas. The work concerns a family tragically victimized by circumstance and a villainous slumlord. The son of the house, Juan Valdes, is a junky and a pimp, and the daughter Aida turns out to really be ... well, it's not fair to spoil the suspense...
...case of suicide, as it would be made to appear." That sounded ominous, and everybody grew more worried when Williams disappeared from his Manhattan apartment. Reporters finally located him last week at his house in Key West, refusing to talk about anything. "He must have had a bad scare," judged Dakin. Tennessee's mother, Mrs. Edwina Williams, 86, took the whole thing with a shrug: "My son has done such things before...
...Gaulle's opponents charged that he and Pompidou had waged a scare campaign, successfully terrorizing the voters into seeking sanctuary with Gaullism The Communists were especially bitter, since the Gaullists had singled them out as the scapegoats for the disorders, accusing them of conspiring to take over France and turn it into a Communist dictatorship; actually, the disorders ignited with little if any aid from the Communist Party. Cried Communist Party Leader Waldeck Rochet: "The Gaullists won by applying blackmail of fear against the French people...