Word: frightened
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...servants. Still another factor: Black Diamond and Gin-Seng, the last of the dynasty of pug dogs who pranced about the Windsors in a thousand news photos. "We are all happier here, and safer than in a hotel," says the duchess. "I have always been timid," she admits. "Thunderstorms frighten me, and I won't travel in planes if I can avoid...
...editorial, "Israelis and Arabs: No One Is Right" (October 16) was encouraging in its sobriety and awareness of tragedy. I would add one further comment for pondering by your editors and readers, namely, that the strident calls for the release of Soviet Jews coming from this country not only frighten the Russians but also frighten the Arabs, since they add to the image of an indefinitely expansionist Israel. The sad fact is that many of the nationalities within the Soviet Union would like to emigrate: Ukrainians, Lithanians, some Jews, many others. The "people's democracies" surrounding the Soviet Union would...
...effort to reduce right-wing opposition and frighten the truckers, Allende persuaded commanders of the armed forces to come into his Cabinet. That was a serious error, since it politicized the military, which had tried to stay above the crisis, into pro-and anti-Allende factions. The result was a charade of revolving-door politics...
...When we frighten, we frighten by the simplest means," said Ustinov...
Although he was the only journalist at Wounded Knee formally charged with conspiracy to incite riot, Oliphant volunteered that "in a broader context" he had been arrested to "frighten away others or steer them away" from first-person coverage of the siege of the South Dakota town...