Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expect such heavy opposition from the liberals. The "un-American" in HUAC's old name had been a fighting word to them, a chauvinist smear. The New Republic, for example, editorialized: "At present a lot of Congressmen vote funds for the committee lest they be called unpatriotic. Drop the scare word and the spell breaks." But opponents of the bill feared that a new name would make HUAC more respectable. As the real aims of the bill became clearer, they fought to save the scare word...
...COMMITTEE anticipated revived activity following the lean years between Eisenhower and the Gulf of Tonkin. HUAC thrives on domestic fear, just the kind produced by "leftists" picketing for peace in Vietnam of demonstrating for black power. So far, though, the big Red scare has not developed, and the noise from HUAC has been minimal...
...Atwood had the closet scare of his Harvard squash career in winning, 11-15, 18-17, 18-16, 17-18, 15-8. His opponent Bill Swigart was the first player to take a game off Atwood all year...
Harvard did surprisingly well against Columbia last week, finally bowing, 15-12. An especially strong showing by the epee squad, led by Mark Irvings, threw a scare into the haughty Lions, but a weak foil team which won only one of its nine matches gave Columbia...
...these dangers don't scare passengers away, there may be enough other annoyances so that SSTs will become commercial flops. The zooming acceleration will be too fast for the standard passenger's taste, Shurcliffe says, and the peep-hole windows will make for an unpicturesque flight. The speed advantage could conceivably overcome these annoyances, but Shurcliffe suggests a more compelling limitation. Since the needle-shaped SSTs will hold fewer passengers but cost more to run than conventional jumbo jets, fares will be much higher for SST trips. And so, Shurcliffe suggests, airlines that had stocked up on fleets of SSTs...