Word: scaring
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According to a 1958 Massachusetts law, any town that wishes to fluoridate must present the issue in a public referendum. A petition signed by 12 per cent of a town's registered voters is required to place the referendum on the ballot. Scare statements from spurious medical "authorities" have in the past defeated many fluoridation referenda in Massachusetts...
Hard Lessons. Not all broadcasters were that responsible. As troops moved into Washington, radio and TV newsmen reported that "tanks" were rumbling down New Hampshire Avenue, when in fact they were simply personnel carriers. More recklessly, at the peak of the riot scare, rock-'n'-roll station WABC in Manhattan broadcast on-the-street interviews with Harlem agitators. Cried one: "We were planning to burn down your part of town anyway, but now we can take the whole thing this summer! I want to kill anybody I know who is against anything that's good...
Vesper Boat Club of Philadelphia, which will provide Harvard's main competition for the Olympic trials this summer, will race Northeastern on the Charles at 5:00 p.m. today. Northeastern, strong again this year, gave the Crimson its biggest scare last spring, and the outcome of this race will indicate much for the Crimson heavyweights' prospects...
...Black Power Stokely has "revised" a theory which had never existed except as revolutionary rhetoric. The result is that while black power is saying one thing black power theory is holding out something actually quite different. The rhetoric must scare away all but the militant members of the black community, many of whom are only adventurers. But the real problem calls for serious, concerted work, and above all, money...
Around the Ivy League, Columbia survived a Yale scare with a last minute rally to take over undisputed possession of first place, 67-61. Princeton dropped a vital 62-60 decision to Dartmouth's surprising Indians...