Word: scaring
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...elsewhere and kept breaking stories. But Hugh was the one who kept pushing the story with the editors in New York, fighting for space, telling them that there was fire to go with the smoke. He helped stiffen their backbones when the Nixon White House was trying to scare other publications off the case, and encouraged Sandy to keep digging. As bureau chief his role may not have been as visible as others', but it was an important factor in TIME's overall performance during that tumultuous period...
...Murtha sounded an awful lot like Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, who, according to high-ranking military officials, has seemed slightly annoyed that the war in Iraq has diverted resources from his real goal of "transforming" the military into a high-tech outfit that can scare the bejeezus out of China. Rumsfeld's Pentagon has refused to undertake the violent reordering of priorities-more special forces, more intelligence, zero boats-needed to fight a scruffy, labor-intensive struggle against an enemy that thrives in shadows in Iraq, Afghanistan and elsewhere. Rumsfeld's relative indifference to the shooting war since...
...There was one girl last year who would strip down and splatter herself against the window and scare people…just for kicks,” reported Leverite Marissa C. Carrio, ’06. Not even a hard hat will protect you from that...
...September, a Maltese-registered cargo ship carrying 15 tons of iron ore, and, just last weekend, a cruise ship with some 300 American and British holidaymakers aboard. (Though the pirates fired semiautomatic weapons and a rocket-propelled grenade, the ship's crew used an on-board "acoustic bang" to scare the pirates off, according to a spokeman for the liner.) Maritime authorities are worried not only that the number of attacks off Somalia has jumped from last year, when just two were reported, but that Somali pirates are becoming more aggressive and skillful. In the past, most of the attacks...
...shutout.“I knew I couldn’t get to her, so I just sort of sprinted back to the goal,” Odorczyk said. “I didn’t even clear it. I just sort of tapped it. I was scared I was going to hit it in the net. Luckily [senior back Sara Sedgwick] was right there, so she cleared it. She was in the perfect position too.”The scare helped motivate Harvard to finish the game strong.“The girl was so close to scoring...