Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pair of Malaysian exiles, both Chinese Communists, the guerrillas went searching for Chinese peasants loyal to the government of Tunku Abdul Rahman. They killed three in one family, stabbed three men near a bridge on the road to Kuching, and reportedly hanged a Chinese patriarch, in an attempt to scare others into turning against the government...
...post-war "red scare" in education began unobtrusively in 1946 with the formation of the National Council for American Education, an organization that sought to "eradicate Socialism, Communism, and all forms of Marxism from the schools and colleges of America, and to stimulate sound American education." In keeping with these patriotic goals, the Council, in 1949, published a booklet entitled Red-Ucators at Harvard, listing subversive Harvard professors and the "Communist-Front" organizations to which they belonged. Crane Brinton, Howard Mumford Jones, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Sr., Mark DeWolfe Howe, and John Kenneth Galbraith were all named. So was an associate...
...weeks ago, in Roosevelt Raceway's $35,800 Commodore Pace, Ervin had a scare of a different sort: at the halfway point, a rival ranged up to take the lead. But Bret responded with a burst of speed that carried him across the finish line three-quarters of a length in front. His time for the mile: 1 min. 59 2/5 sec.-a new track record. By comparison, last week's $21,434 Matron Stake at Michigan's Wolverine Raceway was strictly a breeze: ripping through the last 1 mile in 29 sec. flat, Bret whinnied...
...battle of the team captains, Yale's Kent Nelson gave Dean Peckham a scare before bowing...
...full of top-brass clichés. His comely daughter (Anne Francis), as Bug's resident bunny, does what she can to assist former U.S. Intelligence Officer George Maharis, whose ticklish assignment is to save the world. Before Maharis can track down the crazed millionaire behind the bacilli scare, Florida has been decimated by botulinus. Maharis endures sundry perils prior to a climactic wrestling match in a helicopter high above Los Angeles, and the bulk of mankind survives to enjoy movies like The Satan Bug. Just harmless formula stuff, actually. The effects wear off before the film is half...