Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...riots in & which more than 200 may have been killed, the wily dictator seemed to have no regrets about the brutal tactics used to crush the disturbances. "When the army shoots," he said in his resignation speech, "it shoots to hit. It does not fire in the air to scare...
...thought that the AIDS scare couldn't touch you, that you were removed from the horrors of the disease for which there is no cure, read Alice Hoffman's At Risk and think again. A modern day novel which takes place in a town on the Massachusetts North Shore, At Risk teaches that no one is safe from Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome and that all of us are exposed to more than the medical harms of the AIDS virus...
...novel's opening words are "there is a wasp in the kitchen," and with such an ominous beginning we are immediately set on edge, armed with the knowledge that somewhere in the novel, someone is in danger. The wasp scare turns out to be incidental, but it does serve to introduce us to the family of main characters whose lives are destined to fall apart...
...Scrunching into a child's chair in an eighth-grade English class, Bennett speaks softly. "You don't want to scare 'em," he explains later. When the pupils' questions become too rote, Bennett teases. "Some kids asked me if the Secret Service was here. 'See that big guy back there?' " he says, pointing to a hulking bodyguard. "If you guys make a move for me, you're in trouble...
Even when the public does find a direct link between a contribution and a Congressman's vote, throwing the bum out is not as easy as it used to be. Incumbents with huge campaign chests scare off all but the most fearless challengers. Add to money the other advantages of incumbency -- free broadcast studios, newsletters that are printed and mailed to constituents at the taxpayers' expense, a staff that helps hundreds of local voters get Social Security checks -- and it is no wonder that only 50 of the 435 House races are being genuinely contested this year...