Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point, the commander of the column moving south from Luangprabang unleashed 135 rounds of 105-mm howitzer shells at a "suspected sniper." Later, atop a hill, he sent a massive artillery barrage crashing into the unscouted jungle ahead, declaring that "this will scare them off"-and it soon did. Closing on the key road junction of Phou Khoun, the troops from the north and a column from Vientiane raked the junction from both sides...
With the air of a man who has won a great victory-or would like people to think he has-Fidel Castro turned his guns from the sea and ended the mythical "Yankee invasion" scare. Calling for "a quest of peace" with the new Kennedy Administration, he turned his attention inland last week, and for good reason. There is a very real foe to fight at home. It is the underground rebellion, operating in Cuba's hills and cities, infiltrating the army and government agencies, doing more damage to the new dictatorship in six months than Castro had managed...
...varsity fencing team gave Columbia a real scare Saturday, but lost 14 to 13. In losing, though, the Crimson came as close as it could to defeating the Ivy League favorite and traditionally one of the nation's top fencing teams...
That would seem tragic to teachers at the integrated schools, who recently sent a delegation to his office to say: "We want you to know that we'll be in school Monday morning raring to go." Says Redmond: "That just shows you can't scare intelligent people. Their education is their strength. That's why this fight to preserve education is so important...
...must also advert to the charge of "irresponsibility" made against me by Dr. Jerome B. Wiesner, member of the President's Science Advisory Committee. His position apparently is that all discussion of new possibilities in nuclear technology is "irresponsible" and "scare" talk. From a nuclear scientist who must know that nuclear technology is in its infancy and that its possibilities are almost endless this statement is incomprehensible. He further maintains that nothing must "inhibit the government" in its endeavor to reach an agreement with the Soviet Union on the cessation of nuclear tests. He apparently shares the current obsession...