Word: scaring
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Bruins' best chance for success tonight appears to be in the short freestyles. Against Springfield, they won the 50,100, and 200. Eric Shrier, one of the many talented sophomores on the team, won the 50 in 22.8-a good time, but not one which should scare Harvard's Mike Cahalan (21.7) or Paul Horvitz...
...raid was fragile. Cora Weiss, who returned from Hanoi with the news that six prisoners of war had died, has claimed that Laird twisted the information and that, in her opinion, the prisoners did not die of mistreatment. The U. S. can easily hoke up another "mistreatment" scare whenever it decides that the North Vietnamese need a dose of terror, and send in the kamikaze killers...
...living in the jungle, but he wonders if wild beasts may not be lurking in his grandmother's English garden. "Is it safe for me here?" he asks. Prudently, he retrieves his ball from under a shrub only after thumping the bush with a big stick to scare off snakes...
...hearing next month. But the suspicions fanned by the incident may not subside for years. Says the father of one boy who was questioned recently: "It's a witch hunt. You don't know what's going to happen; there are names being bandied about and scare rumors. Who knows how much evidence there is? It gets your stomach in a knot...
Designed to scare off rice-eating sparrows. Japan's scarecrows are being replaced by smelly chemical repellents and automatic noisemakers. Kataoka believes the modern substitutes work no better than the time-honored field dummies. Moreover, he says, the decline in scarecrows is a blow to rural charm. "Scarecrows," he declares, "are the final remains of our ancestral sense of aesthetics-delicate without being pretentious, colorful yet never loud...