Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York high school girls who get pregnant-as about 1,000 girls under 17 in the city do each year-get taken out of school "for the good of the school." This threat tends to scare young, unwed mothers-to-be so much that they often try to hide their condition, and fully half of them manage, with skillful dissembling, to get away with it and stay in school. In consequence, they mostly do without prenatal care, and many of the resulting babies are stillborn. To break this chain of unhappy events, the New York State department of social welfare...
...this raises a further problem, for Radcliffe, obviously, has a vested interest in siphoning off the best of the best. It isn't as easy as it sounds. For one thing, as Mrs. Farrington points out, the very brilliance of Radcliffe's image tends to scare away some of the people the College would like to attract. Though Committee members say they no longer worry about geographical, social, and economic distribution, Radcliffe remains an essentially Eastern, upper-class College. The majority of the applicants come from the New England and middle Atlantic states; the College still fills nearly...
...fear that government-run companies in the oil, construction and petrochemical industries will eventually take over their private competitors. Some U.S. manufacturers doing business in Venezuela have been pressured into setting up branch plants there, under government threats that their import permits might be revoked. The effect is to scare off other potential investors and to accelerate the process that has cut new U.S. investment in Venezuela from a 1957 high of $912 million to a 1960 low of $130 million...
...will certainly do more than the TV press conferences. Faced with a decline of American influence abroad, the recession at home, and the necessity to knead a complacent Congress, Kennedy's only chance for carrying through any of his ambitious programs is persuasion. If he cannot or will not scare Americans into believing that the recession is a crisis, he can at least explain to them why some action is needed--which is more than the present TV format permits...
After Swan and Kaemmerlen had upped the Princeton advantage to five points at the beginning of the second half, Borchard gave the crowd a final scare. Scoring on twisting drives across the foul lane and on jump shots, the Crimson star made 11 points in the next ten minutes to keep the margin at five, 47-42. At this point six straight Tiger foul shots put the game out of reach...