Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...RUSSIANS ARE COMING THE RUSSIANS ARE COMING." A bumbling Soviet submarine crew panics a tight little island off the New England coast, but the invasion scare is funniest when Broadway's Alan Arkin filters cold war jitters through the psyche of a reticent Russian sailor...
...points in a day. Now it would steady, now twitch nervously upward?only to fall again. Market analysts, always ready with reasons, have exercised considerable imagination in explaining the day-by-day declines. Thus, on May 31, industrials dropped 12.97 points, and analysts said the trouble was a peace scare based on rumors about Viet Nam truce talks. On June 29, the average fell 9.30 points, and the drop was attributed to a war scare because the U.S. was stepping up its bombing efforts against North Viet...
...romantic," says mysteriously: "I am a blue-eyed daughter in a brown-eyed family." She elaborates: "I know I'm very different from the rest of my family. My interests are not the same and my physical appearance is not the same. Sometimes I think I scare them...
...Crown Cola. Sometimes the change is an allout risk. Maxwell Wihnyk, 54, was running a mildly profitable newspaper in Beaumont, Calif., five years ago, but there was no joy in it. With a wife and three dependent children, he decided to go to law school. Says he: "You can scare the hell out of yourself living off capital for three years; in fact, the only way to do it is not to think about it." Armed with a degree from the U.C.L.A. law school, he is now set up in a modest but personally satisfying law practice in Beaumont...
...change was partly smart tactics, partly a result of the fresher racial climate that Governor Paul Johnson has managed to create in Mississippi. Though no more of an integrationist than his predecessor, demagogic Ross Barnett, Johnson knows well that racial savagery can only scare off badly needed Northern industries. Moreover, unlike most segregationists he realizes that bla tant oppression merely helps the civil rights cause. As the march entered its second week, Johnson passed the word: keep cool...