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Word: scariest (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...SCARIEST THING I ever saw was the night Elvin Anderson and Chuck Paxton decided to drag race. Which in itself wasn't so bad, but they were arguing about who was the quickest off the line, and they decided to race from the foot of the Elkview Bridge to the main highway, a distance later stepped off by the state police at 36 yards. They were going to come roaring up this little ramp-like section of road and Chuck was going to turn right, up U.S. 119 towards Clendenin, and Elvin was supposed to go left. Everybody came...

Author: By Joseph Dalton, | Title: Please Don't Bury Me | 1/6/1977 | See Source »

...which is holding a pumpkin decorating contest on Saturday from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Free pumpkins available at the zoo, or bring your own. Prizes, including zoo T-shirts, membership in the Boston Zoological Society animal posters and "Bird's World" bumperstickers, will be awarded to the funniest, scariest and most-like-an-animal pumpkins. Zoo staff will be on hand with decorating ideas

Author: By Gay Seidman, | Title: MISCELLANY | 10/28/1976 | See Source »

...Universe competition by pressing weights in a Batman getup. The owner of the Olympic, a toupeed madman who calls himself Thor Erickson (R.H. Armstrong), spies on Mary Tate through a peephole in the floor, finally goes berserk after inhaling a noseful of poppers and, in the film's scariest scene, tries to rape her and murder Craig...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Low Life | 5/10/1976 | See Source »

...scope of those activities was far broader than had been previously known. At hearings conducted jointly by three Senate subcommittees into Government invasion of privacy, the Connecticut Republican made public a sheaf of White House memorandums, which he said "display Government at its most efficient philosophically and at its scariest" to individuals. Among his revelations and documentation of previous reports...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Gumshoes and Tax Audits | 4/22/1974 | See Source »

...time since the Civil War. In a sense, the whole country is turning into a civics class to re-examine the American situation. Many teachers worry about the impact of Watergate on their pupils. At a Halloween party in a New York City Catholic school, the prize for the scariest costume went to an eleven-year-old girl wearing a Nixon mask. Helen Wise, president of the National Education Association, wrote the President: "Teachers are asking me how they can fulfill their responsibilities of teaching young people the moral, ethical and spiritual values required in a free society while...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: OPINION: The Jury of the People Weighs Nixon | 11/12/1973 | See Source »

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