Word: frighted
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...sent down from Cambridge for punching a policeman. He left town astride a coffin in an undergraduate mock funeral. Disowned by his family, he spent eight months roughing it across Canada. The vast sky and the flat horizon-reaching grasslands left him with a numbing sense of oppression, "the fright of the mind before the unknown" that he came to believe "created not only the first gods, but also the first...
...About one in five believes that a newborn child's disfiguration may be caused by the mother's fright during pregnancy...
Experiments of this kind have proved that the octopus can distinguish the shapes of objects that it sees and can judge their size and distance. A very large object makes the octopus turn pale and flatten down, presumably from fright. The octopus can tell a vertical object from the same object lying horizontal, but it cannot tell between mirror images-related shapes like right and left hands...
Australian-born Actress Judith Anderson, 62, long abask in U.S. footlights, nervously made an entrance in the ballroom of London's Buckingham Palace. Quivering with stage fright, she was invested by Queen Elizabeth II with the insignia of a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Tremoloed Dame Judith in her best Medea style: "The hardest role I've ever had to play...
...Lost World (Irwin Allen; 20th Century-Fox) exhibits Claude Rains in a red fright-wig, and Jill St. John in-just barely-a pair of pink slacks. These wonders notwithstanding, the most intriguing performers, as is only proper in a Good-Lord-Professor-Can-It-Be? film, are several dinosaurs. Their eyes blaze, their mattress-sized tongues flick menacingly, and their lank green hides glisten in squamous grandeur. They thrash about like lovers in a French art film, roar like convention orators and, when they are hungry, give new depth and meaning to scenery chewing. When two of them duel...