Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...scare story? Not quite. Today, the authoritative "red data book" of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources lists 835 "endangered species and subspecies" that hover on the brink of extinction. Among their habitats and situations...
...Voting Rights Act of 1965]. The bill he was putting up, claiming he wanted to equalize the franchise across the nation, was actually trying to destroy that which gave us the Stokeses, the black sheriffs, while at the same time defeating the Jim Clarks and throwing a scare into men like Herman Talmadge and Mendel Rivers. It is very evident that Nixon does not intend for us to be able to utilize the truth of the courts that we have used in the past...
...similar to granting deferments to young people under the old system. To prevent men from escaping their claws, they encourage them to take deferments, postponing their entrance into the lottery pool until they have a greater chance of being inducted. By threatening to go through the entire list, they scare men who are probably safe this year into getting "redundant" deferments. Their control has not been reduced to one year. By making irresponsible estimates of manpower needs, they can extend their control indefinitely. This is not to attribute Machiavellian motives to all draft boards-just most...
...frustration, there was some reason for optimism. The fact that so many of us are coming all the way down to talk about it should impress them, for what that's worth. And it could scare them. After all, we have great canvassing power if we get involved in it. It might not pay to keep us unhappy. In most cases, however, it'll probably be a question of canvassing diligently enough to defeat these hopelessly stubborn representatives. Sen. Ralph Yarborough told the Harvard group that organized canvassing could have won a primary for him in Texas. Instead...
Unless the U.S. takes a stand in the Middle East strong enough to scare off the Russians-and few expect that they will be easily scared-the Israelis feel that they have only three options: 1) to retain the present borders and hope for the best; 2) to compromise and seek a peace arrangement; or 3) to mobilize and strike hard and fast with the aim of destroying the Egyptian armed forces before the Soviets can bring in sufficient reinforcements...