Word: frightened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Sung has not explicitly said he would respond to sanctions by invading South Korea, it is a chilling fact that he did invade once before. For his part, Clinton has vowed that North Korea cannot be allowed to acquire an atomic arsenal. A nuclear-armed Pyongyang could not only frighten Japan and South Korea into building the Bomb but also might be willing to sell atomic weapons to any rogue states that would pay, such as Iran and Libya...
...spider in the bathroom and take it outside with a tissue," says crime writer Ann Rule, who turned her experience on a suicide- prevention hotline alongside fellow volunteer -- and serial killer -- Ted Bundy into the best-selling The Stranger Beside Me. "The more we learn about things that frighten us, the more we can ease our fears...
...much recall, in fact, that Kathleen Hall Jamieson, dean of the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, is asking the press to undertake an "ad watch for public-policy commercials. Harry and Louise invite false inferences . . . They frighten people about reform, while insisting they...
Skocpol said that while the council agreedthat it was necessary to screen out ineffectiveTFs, she is concerned that a severe standardizedlanguage test would frighten some graduatestudents...
...this confusion? Frighten the Horsesaims to "cover queer and women's issues" as well as feature erotic articles which could not be published elsewhere. In so doing, FTH encompasses a hodgepodge of seriousness and silliness regarding the most sensitive sexual and political issues. Most of its serious work--opinion columns, news section, feature articles, and book reviews--is for the most part terribly written and renders the weighty topics of gay rights, abortion, censorship and feminism largely ridiculous. Lou Ann Thomas concludes her piece on political rifts within the gay community with the cheesy plea that "we need each other...