Word: frighten
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...frighten evil spirits away from their homes and villages on festival days, Mexicans put on the faces of nightmare bulls. Chinese dragons, purple monkeys, Byzantine kings, Greek satyrs, cranberry-colored Satans and a host of nameless beings as varied as they are scary. Small papier-mache masks for children sell for only a few cents in every market place; more elaborate examples, carved from wood or gourd, are used in ceremonial dances. Next week, during the festival of Corpus Christi. such dances will be held all over Mexico...
...some respects his assignment might frighten even Toscanini, for just as an orchestra is trained to perfection, one of its talented, members will suddenly introduce a new instrument-a longer, more versatile catheter, an artificial kidney, a triumph of chemotherapy . . . The professor . . . must . . . integrate it with the rest of the orchestra. Judging from my own brief experience in this exacting role, I wonder if the average professor of medicine today ever really knows the score...
...Spain and surveyed the ragged levies sent him for his Peninsular campaign against the French. "I don't know what effect these men will have on the enemy," said the man who was to go down in history as the Duke of Wellington, "but, by God, they frighten...
...camera in the earth beside it. Then he watched and took pictures while the eggs were hatched. When the nestlings appeared, he got his answer: when disturbed, the baby owls made a noise exactly like a snake's rattle. Nature may have supplied this trick to frighten off intruders...
...scratch. Captain Shields, who had sidelined his two top singles players, Dick Savitt and Vic Seixas, would just as obviously have to start thinking about some new combinations. A fortnight before the big test, Australian Captain Harry Hopman was elaborately unworried: "I saw nothing in the play to frighten members of Australia's Davis Cup squad...