Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exports account for 78% of all Bolivia's foreign exchange, and tin miners are thus a potent group that strikes frequently. During one protest against Barrientos in 1967, the President went down into the mines to confront them. An angry miner held out a dynamite stick and, to scare the President, threatened to blow the assemblage higher than Bolivia's Andean Altiplano. Barrientos grabbed the stick, held it out to be lit and called the miner's bluff. Last year Barrientos took charge in the jungle of the government troops who cornered and killed Che Guevara...
...current needs runs to similar magnitudes: 3,454,160 of the present moment, and 2,700,000 when peace returns. To raise the Viet Nam-inflated forces, the Department of Defense has relied on the draft to bring in about one-third of new troops and on the scare power of the draft to induce thousands of others to "volunteer." The draftees go to the Army, mostly to the infantry; the glamorous Air Force never has to draft anyone, and the Navy and Marines only rarely...
...Amherst match seemed anti-climactic after a furious round of inter-squad matches on Monday and Tuesday. In that competition, Michel Schienmann gave number two man Larry Terrell a scare when he rallied to take the third and fourth games, but Larry held on to win in the fifth...
...WITCHES' SECRET, by Frances Charlotte Allen, illustrated by Laura Jean Allen (Harper & Row; $3.50), turns the traditional scare story upside down. Here, three lovable broom ladies, after promising the mayor not to play any more pranks, cast one final happy spell...
...Marxist theory, he proposed to turn over to the workers some of the means of production-in this case, California's Depression-idled farms and factories. Led by the Los Angeles Times, his alarmed opposition charged that Sinclair planned to Sovietize the state and nationalize children. Despite the scare campaign against him, he came within 259,000 votes of winning...