Word: frighten
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bretton Woods. A sharp cutback in U.S. military operations abroad would reduce the outflow of dollars, but it would frighten some of the very nations that protest American "dollar imperialism"-notably Germany, which feels that the presence of U.S. troops on its soil is necessary until there is a Soviet withdrawal from Eastern Europe. Reinstituting the tight-money policies and high interest rates of 1968 and 1969 would help the balance of payments, but would also abort U.S. recovery from last year's recession and throw many more Americans out of work...
...Bengali businessman told of losing his son, daughter-in-law and four grandchildren in the fire. Few apparently survived in the destroyed sections-25 square blocks-of the Old City. If they escaped the flames, they ran into gunfire. To frighten survivors, soldiers refused to allow the removal of decomposing bodies for three days, despite the Moslem belief in prompt burial, preferably within 24 hours, to free the soul...
...responsible was Metropolitan Editor Arthur Gelb, who spotted an offbeat story in the monthly magazine of Manhattan's Museum of Natural History; the article concluded that wolves howled not to frighten people but to communicate with other wolves. Gelb assigned Schonberg to write a professional critique of the calls of the wild. After listening to nearly an hour's worth of howling, Schonberg issued his straight-faced findings, complete with notational diagram...
Modest Fees. The FDA's order, however, did not stifle interest in the drug. Manufacturers in Mexico and Monaco are now producing Laetrile, and California's McNaughton Foundation, which also funds research in diabetes, parapsychology and heart disease, championed its cause. Nor did the FDA warning frighten the desperate. Since 1963, more than 2,500 American cancer sufferers, many of whom had given up on other treatments, have flocked to the Tijuana clinic, which is run by affable Dr. Ernesto Contreras, a graduate of the Mexican Army Medical School...
...SUIT contends that surveillance of this type has a "chilling effect on First Amendment rights and tends to frighten people away from participating in peaceful rallies and demonstrations...