Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that, Yates gave Dirksen a small scare. He led during the first seven hours of the vote counting. But these returns were mostly from Chicago, and even there Dirksen wound up with about 49% of the vote-down from his past figures but still much better than Republicans generally do against Mayor Richard Daley's Democratic organization. Because he had done very little campaigning in downstate Republican strongholds, Dirksen's expected margin was narrowed-but not nearly enough to keep him from handily winning his third term...
Eliot, which has just one game remaining before the crucial encounter with Leverett, had an easier time in trouncing Dunster, 29-6. Eliot's huge line and powerful running attack overwhelmed the Funsters. Since Dunster had given Leverett a scare the week before, Eliot's win looked even more impressive...
...same argument, designed specifically to scare the daylights out of the underdeveloped countries, that Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko used in his opening speech to the United Nations, and that Soviet diplomats were still peddling in the corridors. Several of the newly independent nations of Africa and Asia. whose foreign policy is neutralist or left-leaning anyway, accepted the Red reasoning. Said the representative of Guinea: "The direct colonial exploitation of yesteryear is now being substituted by that of international monopolies...
...words could scare Nikita Khrushchev out of Cuba, his technicians would be homebound from Havana right now. After four hours of debate, in which U.S. Representatives unleashed all their anger at the Soviet buildup in the Caribbean, the House passed the Senate-approved resolution reaffirming the right of the U.S. to use force-if needed-in the spirit of the Monroe Doctrine. Secretary of State Dean Rusk talked, mainly about Cuba, to some 40 foreign ministers from all over the world as they gathered at the United Nations in New York. Rusk also laid the groundwork for an informal meeting...
...There is only one thing according to history, gentlemen, that really gets this country moving again and that is a good, tangible red-scare...