Word: scares
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...accidentally discovered during a routine radiation check of the New York state health department's radiological sciences lab in Albany, where he is now employed. At first, the state kept quiet about the case. But eventually a reporter heard about it, and state officials decided to head off scare stories by giving the facts. "From a public health point of view," they insisted, "there is absolutely no hazard...
...other possibility is that the national SMC, with all good intentions, was so stunned by the endless sea of people on the mall that it went temporarily blind. After all. SMC did what they set out to do. Against all odds, defying scare-campaigns from the Justice Department, F. B. I. harassment of charter bus companies, miserable weather, SMC actually brought more people together-the aerial photographs put the number between 0.8 and 1.6 million-than had ever assembled before on American ground...
...letter was the key element in a lurid political intrigue centering around the heated British elections in 1924. Coming at the height of the "Red Scare," it purports to be from Grigori Zinoviev, President of the Communist International in Moscow, and instructs the British Communist Party to establish cells in the army and support the Labor Party...
...SMALL ROW developed during the bomb scare which involved me and gave cause for reflection. After boarding the plane in Denver, I had put the book I was carrying, The Quotations of Chairman Mao, Peking Press, in the seat pocket in front of me. When the announcement came over the loudspeaker to evacuate the plane, I left without the book. An hour and a half later, while the luggage was being searched, an FBI agent approached...
...agent who questioned me seemed genuinely disappointed that I had no friends in Denver whom he could check on. My refusal to discuss my political philosophy with him evoked only a queer chuckled response that I must be "anti-Establishment." There came a point when the bomb scare seemed less threatening than the FBI and I was genuinely relieved to get airborne again. On the return trip I left Chairman Mao behind...