Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...American imperialists and Soviet revisionists are in no position to scare anyone, much less the heroic and inflexible Albanian people...
...English. The great Red scare after World War I hastened their end. In 1918, after a series of mass deportations and jailings, 101 Wobbly chieftains were tried in Chicago on a five-count indictment charging them with various conspiracies. The presiding judge was Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who, according to Wobbly John Reed, had "the face of Andrew Jackson three years dead." The accused were found guilty and their sentences ran up to 35 years' imprisonment. Wobbly wit flickered a last time when Ben Fletcher, the only Negro defendant, cracked: "Judge Landis has been using bad English today-his sentences...
...previous Bond films have so far grossed $125 million with a surefire combination of ingredients: You Only Live Twice is the mixture as before. As always, Bond is surrounded by a scare'em harem, this time peach-skinned, almond-eyed Japanese dishes. There is the mandatory hardware and gadgetry show, featuring a mini-helicopter equipped with such optional extras as flamethrowers and air-to-air missiles. There is the ultimate confrontation with the Evil Genius, represented by Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Donald Pleasance), an asexual monster with shaved head, hideous scar and foreign accent...
...steps into traveler's checks and travel-and-entertainment credit cards, has far fewer suburban and overseas branches. Part of Wriston's franchise will be to keep the ideas coming-within limits. He still remembers Moore's whimsical advice: "Be so brave as to scare the Chase, but never be so brave as to scare...
...tendency of parents to look on sex education as "disaster insurance." The old threats of pregnancy, venereal disease and community disapproval no longer carry the weight they once did, according to Kirkendall. "Many parents still think we can revitalize these threats," he says, "but the kids don't scare any more." It would be more practical, Kirkendall thinks, to teach them contraception. The solution may not be that simple. Some psychiatrists hold that premarital pregnancy, at least, is often due to factors other than ignorance. Psychologist Dr. Rhoda Lorand cites such causes as "the desire to spite the parents...