Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...meeting of Nkrumah's party last January. Another, Joseph Quaye Mensah, 57, owned up to mailing the Redeemer an anonymous letter warning, "Dear Dr., This is to inform you I am still chasing you until I ... have you killed," but pleaded that he was only trying to scare Nkrumah. When the testimony ended, the three white-wigged judges filed out, spent another two weeks preparing a 6,000-word decision. When they returned last week, the chief justice paused somberly to don a black cap before pronouncing sentence, signal that the verdict would be death by hanging...
...Howard Miller, the chief grocery buyer for the chain's New Jersey, New York and Connecticut stores, estimated that tuna sales were down 30%. Tuna sales fell in Chicago, Detroit and San Francisco. Van Camp Vice President F. E. Hagelberg saw "no question" but that the scare would eventually "have an adverse effect on sales," and an executive for Chicken of the Sea moaned, "I think it's costing the industry millions of dollars in sales...
...lies Sacco and Vanzetti told on being arrested were brought out as evidence of "consciousness of guilt." The defense agreed that the men were conscious of guilt, but claimed they believed they were being arrested for their politics and not for murder. Their interrogation took place during the "Red Scare," when alien radicals were being deported and fear of "bomb-throwers" and foreigners was rampant in the East...
Last year the Amherst tennis team gave the Crimson a scare before losing 5-4. This year, however, the Crimson is stronger, the Lord Jeffs are weaker, and Harvard's margin of victory should be bigger when the teams meet at Harvard today...
...separate deal on a chunk of Kashmir with the Communist enemy, while the talks with India were still going on, and while Chinese troops still menaced India's Himalayan frontier. It just might be that Pakistan's Bhutto was using the Chinese agreement as a club to scare India's government into making compromises on Kashmir. In any case, he said, "we are under no obligation to explain these matters to anyone . . . We have to pursue our national interests...