Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...determined excess and scrapping to sing -- but Childs played it faster and tougher than most. At 20, trying to keep a band together, she got busted on a drug rap and did three months in a federal penitentiary. "It was," she says, with uncharacteristic understate ment, "a very big scare-the-hell-out-of-me situation." Fellow inmates included a "couple of Manson girls and murderers and all kinds of things. And Patty Hearst too. I liked her." On the outside again, Childs sought more conventional means of supporting the band, which split up anyway. She took off for London...
...Dorothy "knew the cost, in every way, of a family, even a small one." She dispenses advice just as Lessing provides us with a cautionary tale, a morality play. Lessing observes the irresponsibilty of her society and echoes the sentiment Dorothy has about her daughter. She says, "Sometimes you scare...
...even so, some workers (including union backers) have no specific qualms. As the union says, it's easier to scare people into voting for the status quo--especially if they are satisfied--than it is to convince them to change...
...this sort of thing harms more than just America's scientific competitiveness. Astrology defames the whole enterprise of rationality, and threatens to warp our view of national and international problems. We cannot call an exorcist to scare the deficit away. We cannot wait for the moon to come into Jupiter to resolve the conflict in the Middle East. A pragmatic, hard-headed approach is the only thing that will save this country, and it has not been much in evidence lately...
Police have attempted to bring the gangs under control, using almostrepressive measures including mass arrests to scare the youngsters. But the gang members outnumber and outgun law enforcement officers. Last march, a rookie New York cop was assassinated by a cocaine kingpin's hitman...