Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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President Reagan, campaigning Saturday at John Wayne's birthplace in Winterset, Iowa, took the Administration defense one step further. Said he: "I think you're going to find that it was all a great big scare and that there was nothing in that manual that had anything to do with assassinations or anything of that kind." A misunderstanding arose, he said, when the word remove was translated as "neutralize" in the Spanish version. Asked how a person is removed from office without violence, Reagan said, "You just say to the fellow that's sitting there...
With the script, CAP workers provide a two-hour introduction for parents, with some straight facts on sex abuse and suggested ways of encouraging their children to tell about any thing off-color that may have happened with an adult. "An offender will scare a kid," says a CAP worker, and "tell him his parents won't love him any more. So you have to defuse that strategy ahead of time...
...Though the saliva finding has created something of a scare, experts say there is little chance of spreading the disease by kissing or sneezing...
...banks that would have fallen in a domino effect if Continental had been allowed to fail. As a result of congressional pressure to avoid such rescues, bankers believe First Chicago, because of its fundamental soundness, presented an opportunity for the Comptroller to clamp down without causing a widespread scare...
Holy Cross 30, Dartmouth 20: At Worcester, the Crusaders--favored by four touchdowns--survived a scare by the winless Big Green and notched a comeback victory to run their record...