Word: scaring
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...supporters staged national demonstrations, foes visited state legislators to argue that women are already protected by the 14th Amendment, which offers equal protection to "all persons." They quickly co-opted the fight and mired it down in dire warnings of homosexual marriages and unisex toilets. ERA supporters dismissed the scare talk as irrelevant. But, says Emory University Political Scientist Eleanor Main, "we should have presented evidence to prove, for example, that the privacy act would preclude unisex toilets." When the battle moved to more substantial issues, it was again on opponents' terms. Foes claimed that the ERA would cede...
Those watching CBS that Monday afternoon remember another image. While the screens showed a deserted Moscow street in the early morning. Walter Cronkite-in the U.S.S.R. preparing a special documentary-lectured on the meaning of America's latest assassination scare. What, Cronkite asked rhetorically, would the Russians think of America when they arose and heard of the events outside the Capitol Hilton? America would again seem to be cascading out of control. The political violence endemic to our democracy since 1963 would seem by implication to justify the domestic repressive measures of the Soviet Union, where political violence from...
Chargling that the massage is worn, the acting pedestrian and the storyline weak should not imply that E.T. fails altogether. It effectively accomplishes its modest goal: to entertain on a warm June evening. Unlike the other half of Spielberg's summer twinbill, Poltergeist, which is supposed to scare, while conveying big statements about the origins of fear and modernism--fumbling on all counts-- K.T. succeeds in providing two hours of carefree...
...Israeli border guards into Lebanon was a quasi-military operation. NBC Cameraman Yossi Greenberg tried the direct approach: he raced through an open gate at 80 m.p.h. in a rented car. This prompted a guard to fire over his head with an M-16 automatic rifle to try to scare him back. Later, Greenberg, like other reporters, took advantage of an opening in the 60-mile-long border fence into Lebanon. In the first two days some correspondents slipped past simply by following Israeli armored columns through the gap; the dust churned up was so heavy that busy border guards...
...reevaluate your priorities. Certain things become more important--friends, family, that sort of thing. Things that used to make me mad now just don't faze me. Things don't faze me, things don't scare me. Things get put in perspective...