Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most aggressive figures were carved on waka tupapaku, or wooden burial chests that Maori mourners upended in caves to scare off intruders. As cannily lit by the Metropolitan, the waka tupapaku from North Island glowers in the shadows with unearthly menace. But terror is not the only emotion the piece is intended to convey. The figure's stylized arms calmly repose upon its protuberant belly, as if to reassure the person whose bones are contained within...
...women's lightweight crew team completed it most successful season ever with a win at the Eastern Sprints, but not before the defending titlist, Smith, put a scare into the Radcliffe champs...
...point scale on the revised LSAT ranges from 10 to 48, but Harvard will not disclose the mean score for the student body. "We don't want to scare people off." Geraghty explains, saying only that it's "very high." The average score for the entire applicant pool is 39, in the ninety-sixth percentile...
...tranquillity in troubled Central America, is experiencing some unaccustomed turbulence. Minister of Security Angel Edmundo Solano Calderón put the nation's 6,000-man civil guard on "maximum alert" two weeks ago, citing rumors of a coup. After President Luis Alberto Monge ridiculed the takeover scare as "crazy," a chastened Solano said he had only been joking. But a few days later Monge asked Solano and the 14 other members of his Cabinet to resign, as well as nearly all of the country's 33 ambassadors...
...York, contributed 20 points in the semifinal. Steve Alford, a sophomore on Knight's Indiana squad whose selection initially caused controversy, led the team with 18 points against France, and again with 17 against a West German team that gave the U.S. its closest thing to a scare, losing by only 78-67. Two better-known players, Ewing and 6-ft. 9-in. Wayman Tisdale of Oklahoma, at first spent a lot of time on the bench because they were not adroit enough at defense to please Knight, whose Indiana teams have won six Big Ten titles...