Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cigarette manufacturers to limit other advertising as well. Nonetheless, half of all British adults remain on cigarettes, and the past two years have seen a steady increase in consumption among young people. Confronted with a tax-heavy price of 75? a pack, Britons seem largely indifferent to the health scare, economically they continue to smoke their cigarettes down to the final finger-burning puff...
...many Americans under 30, the cold war seems like a scare story concocted by the older generation. But it was all too real, and no one knows it better than George Kennan. He also knows that the issues underlying the conflict have not disappeared, despite the fact that the Communist monolith has splintered into a "Humpty Dumpty" that "will not and cannot be reassembled." For the U.S., the continuing problem is how to face Communism without being either fatuously optimistic about coexistence or excessively belligerent in opposition. In dealing with that problem, Kennan has often been out of step with...
...handles. They are real. They make sense. All right, put them together. Metallic, impenetrable chaos. Subterranean Homesick Blues. Don't string the facts from the clothes line pole of conventional conceptions, don't order them with pliers of cause and effect. Just put them together--and they'll scare you. His experiment suggests how easy it is to let out ragged wild, numb wild thoughts, how close we already are to slipping into chaos. And his persistent question...
Varsity soccer coach Bruce Munro had a scare at halftime during the Columbia game Saturday. His left wing. Scott Robertson, a junior who led the squad in scoring last season, was sitting on the bench coughing up blood...
Brown, the perennial champ, which, according to Munro "should have the best team it's ever had this fall," had another scare, nipping what was supposed to be a weak Yale elevan, 2-1. And the Bruins, with one of the most powerful attacks in the country, were shut out except for a two-minute span in the second quarter when they scored both goals...