Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Society did not, however, randomly selectpeople to target as witches; most of the accusedshared several distinguishing characteristics.Most of the accused confessed to being witches,"...or, ...at any rate, pretended to [have]extraordinary powers..."1, used to scare theirenemies and harm livestock. This characteristic isquestionable in that many of the witches whoconfessed did so under torturous conditions. Inthe late 1500's and early 1600's in Europe, theaccused were tried, tortured until they confessedand immediately put to death for practicing blackmagic.2 In Salem, the accused were not tortured;thus initial and convincing confessions ofactually practicing witchcraft were rare...
Before the onslaught, though, came the scare. An Army flub and a Crimson fumble in the first eight minutes of the game gave Harvard a pair of touchdowns and a 14-0 lead...
Harvard survived a major scare with 19 minutesleft and the game still scoreless. Morrin receiveda lead pass in front of the goal, and put it pastReilly. The apparent tally, however, was denieddue to an offsides infraction...
Finally, if you've gotten this far and still think I'm just trying to scare you, remember that I haven't gone into the nonexistent advising, or the inaccessible professors, or the weather, or even the overcrowded basketball courts...
...have exploited the issue for 20 years, advocating phony feel-good nostrums like the current fad for drug testing in the workplace, as if mid-level bureaucrats were society's prime offenders. Joining the politicians in the dock are those antidrug crusaders who have either squandered credibility with exaggerated scare talk or strained credulity with prissy pronouncements. The media are culpable as well, for sensationalized coverage that has often served to glamourize the menace they are decrying. Then there are the social-policy conservatives who purport to see no connection between the flagrant neglect of the economic problems...