Word: frightened
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...physical requirements of policework do not frighten her. "They teach you at the academy not to use your hands, to use the equipment you're issued," she says of possible confrontations, adding that she is "as qualified to use a baton...
...frog story "pessimistic" and "not entirely clear." Grau is at this point a propaganda official in the short-lived Hungarian revolutionary regime of 1919, so he has the authority to rewrite the nation's folklore. In his revised version, the frogs croak so loudly in unison that they frighten less organized animals away. Says Grau: "A society which does not possess its people's dreams is not a society in control of itself...
...administration of "abundance." Lopez Portillo aimed to create millions of jobs, open up the country's political system to limited dissent and establish Mexico as a spokesman for Latin American and even Third World views. Said he: "We must not allow the magnitude of our problems to frighten us, nor to shake our determination...
...part, Fitzgerald declared that he was "obviously not" pleased. Said he: "It ought to frighten anyone who loves liberty." Though disappointed, Fitzgerald will not come off completely emptyhanded. In 1980, in exchange for Fitzgerald's pledge not to take the case to trial even if he prevailed on appeal, Nixon agreed to pay him $142,000. In addition, the former President promised another $28,000 if Fitzgerald won in the Supreme Court. Two weeks ago, Fitzgerald settled a separate suit against the Federal Government under terms guaranteeing him his former position and $200,000 for legal fees...
...Great Britain's three doughty qualifiers-England, Scotland and Northern Ireland-had appeared after similar rumbles to the contrary. The Basque terrorist organization, ETA, although promising its own fans the usual number of bombings and kidnapings for an event of this magnitude, in fact had only managed to frighten the residents of Bilbao with a few misplaced charges...