Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Freed thinks Harvard's problems can be corrected with more practice and more game experience, and he certainly has cause for hope. The Crimson, despite a brief scare against Villanova in the opening game Saturday afternoon, played with poise and composure for most of the weekend...
...start of the general election contest, odds of that happening seemed slight. George Bush and his minions seemed fixated on "family values," Bill Clinton's draft record and a deceptive numbers game over tax increases in Arkansas. The Democrats sounded on the verge of declaring class warfare -- trying to scare the elderly, veterans and students with unfounded charges that Bush would savage programs on which they depend. But suddenly last Thursday, Bush jerked attention away from all that and onto the issue many Americans suspected he had been doing almost anything to avoid: the nation's economic future. Overnight...
Western governments seem to hope the mere threat of force will scare off combatants who have shown no signs of responding to international dictums. The nominal admission of inspection teams to some detention camps last week was little more than a shell game in which cleaned-up camps were opened to outsiders while prisoners were hustled away to other facilities far from prying eyes...
...before Clinton was born. Then Clinton clambered up onto the small outdoor podium for a quick rendition of his stump speech. Knowing all too well how easily this political magic can fade, he tried to inoculate himself by warning, "In the next 88 days, those Republicans will try to scare you to death. Clinton and Gore -- those young fellows -- will go hog wild, and things will be terrible. For the only way those Republicans can be elected is to scare you to death...
...young law professor with '60s-style hair, a Yale and Oxford background and liberal cohorts from the university on his team, he should have been an easy loser in this enclave of the state's few Republicans. But he ran surprisingly well, thanks to Watergate, giving Hammerschmidt the one scare in his long, safe tenure of the office...