Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Republicans than in Arkansas, where Winthrop Rockefeller, 54, had to overcome both political tradition and a barrage of personal slurs by Democrat Jim Johnson, 41, a ranting segregationist who helped make the campaign one of the nation's dirtiest. Rockefeller, who gave Democratic Governor Orval Faubus a scare in the 1964 election, loosened up his campaign style, tightened up his party's fledgling apparatus, and let Jim Johnson undo himself. In the process, the nascent Arkansas G.O.P. elected its first Lieutenant Governor and its first U.S. Congressman in modern times...
They were right, theoretically, in trying to protect the informal seminar program and in resisting anything that might scare public officials away from it. The seminar program will surely be the Institute's unique, most valuable contribution...
...affluence have also altered his style. His rhythm songs now have about as much rock as a rocking chair, and the most widely deplored Pelvis in human history has practically ground to a halt. The Presley phiz moves even ]ess-it just twitches now and then, maybe to scare off flies. For Presley, immobility may signify maturity. He is pitching his act at some sort of adult audience-possibly adult chimpanzees...
...drop of water splashing down from the ceiling puts out the lamp, and no night was ever this black. Deep down the cave echoes lowly to a distant river, somewhere below. A spot of limestone drips onto the floor. You can hear the cave growing, and it can scare...
...vice-president of U.S. Mutual, a subsidiary of American Allied. Even his friends admit he was guilty of incredible naivete and poor judgment in accepting the job. Republicans made it clear that the American Allied case would be their big issue this fall and Keith's vulnerability helped scare away D.F.L. financial support for the primary battle...