Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such literary facts of life obviously do not scare the gifted Iowa-born Robert Coover. In his second novel, he employs precisely these concepts and what's more, swings for the fences. He does not quite make it, but he deserves at least an extra-base hit for an excellent attempt...
Increasingly at liberty to speak their own minds, Czechoslovak newspaper and radio columnists fueled the scare. "For God's sake," a Radio Prague commentator addressed Moscow, "don't repeat the tragic experience of Yugoslavia and Hungary." Práce, the trade-union newspaper, editorialized that "any sort of military intervention represents such an adventurist policy that it is unbelievable that any member or responsible body such as the Soviet Central Committee could take it into consideration...
...Legg. What's more, they told a Texas jury, she had been charged with murder and was awaiting trial. Mrs. Legg said it was indeed an accident. She had surprised her husband in bed with another woman, she said. She started firing her pistol only to scare the woman, and her husband "accidentally" got in the way of a bullet. Therefore an accident; therefore double indemnity. The jury agreed. The case has been appealed, but if the award is upheld she will get the money even if she is convicted of murder in her criminal trial, a date...
Navy will pass the finish line far back of Harvard, but Penn just might throw a scare through the Crimson. Heavyweight coach Harry Parker think it's possible; he says the race will be "very, very difficult...
...suits, miniskirts and chromed Nazi helmets. A succession of 81 bands-most of them gifted amateurs out of regional coves and hollers-competed in the school auditorium and gymnasium and a nearby revival tent. In addition, a passel of noncompeting performers fiddled, sang or plucked banjos wherever they could scare up an audience-in the classrooms that were used for warm-up rooms, in the parking lots, in the shadow of the tent. Everywhere the air was filled with the dum-ditty-dum-dum rhythms, sprightly scraping and mournful droning of such classic Appalachian ditties as Jimmy Crack Corn...