Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Constitution, are not immune to limitation or even total abridgement. We've seen at before in the United States with the Alien and Sedition Act, with the century-long dormancy of the Reconstruction Amendments, with the imprisonment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, with the Red Scare, and we've seen it elsewhere to an even greater degree. The existence of basic rights is in fact predicated on a consensus opinion in favor of freedom, equality, and other values. This consensus opinion for rights will be eroded, Director, by the negative pressures you hope to build against gays...
...interview, George B. Kistiskowsky, Lawrence professor of Chemistry Emeritus and chairman of the group, said the U.S. government has consistently tried to scare the American public since the end of World War II by exaggerating Soviet military capabilities...
...worrisome enough when President Reagan described the U.S. nuclear arsenal as unequivocally inferior to the Soviet Union's. Last week, during a dinner with reporters, Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger went his boss one better with some nuclear scare talk that was even more worrisome. "Soviet missiles," Weinberger declared flatly, "are now more accurate than ours...
...scare tactics to label as extremists the people who have the courage to fight brutal military dictators in Central America [March 22]? Why shouldn't Nicaragua arm itself against the U.S. Government, which has invaded it twice and is eager to do it again? Why do the Government and the press assume that backing military dictators supports U.S. interests? It doesn't support mine. Hasn't American industry found it profitable to deal with Communist governments in the Soviet Union, China, Yugoslavia and the Eastern satellites of the U.S.S.R.? Why does our Government invariably oppose a people...
Morris Udall, 59, Democratic Congressman, on the difference between the Supreme Court and the Ku Klux Klan: "One puts on black robes to scare the hell out of white people, while the other puts on white robes to scare the hell out of blacks...