Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This inaction has allowed some voices of hate to win a wider hearing than they might have had otherwise. For instance, the National Front, as the only political group actually encouraging violence against minorities, has achieved notoriety beyond its membership of 20,000 or so with scare tactics and street demonstrations. But both the Tories and Labor have carefully refrained from playing reckless politics with race. The Labor Party at least has correctly diagnosed the nature of Britain's racial ills even if it failed to push through any forceful program while in office. Says Merlyn Rees, Labor...
Harvard, on May 4, brought eviction procedures against the tenants who were withholding their rents. The tenants said they saw it as a scare tactic to alienate others in the building, who were marginally participating in the protest. "It's scary to have a constable at your door," Ramseur said...
Speakers did not only tell "scare stories." Many focused on less publicized issues in the movement, such as the role of unions and how and why it's important to get more non-white and older people involved...
Brezhnev interrupted: "The Soviet Union is not attempting to scare the Senate...
...smooth, pro fessional quality to every shot. But since the script and the entire design of the pro duction are aimed at stressing the roman tic at the expense of the passionate and obsessive elements in this tale, he gets to do only the odd clutching-hand scare shot and a few nicely staged chases. There is evidence- a dinner Dracula gives Lucy that is lit by thousands of candles, for example-that he is capable of much stronger mood and atmosphere. But it is as if someone decreed that this was to be a Dracula for adults, forgetting that...