Word: frightened
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...temporary safety in a nearby clump of trees. When the older brother climbed down to run to get help, though, the dogs attacked him. The driver of the school bus, which had just arrived with nearly 20 students aboard, honked her horn in a vain attempt to frighten the animals away. As a neighbor later told the Kansas City Star, "The dogs, they were all sitting around [the body]. It was like they were gloating...
...Notre Dame who has skirmished on occasion with the Vatican but whose theological and historical grasp few would question, believes that before the Vatican II reforms of the mid-1960s, his church had slipped into the lazy role of using heaven and hell as "stories meant to encourage and frighten." Catholicism's once vivid otherworldliness had devolved into a sort of rote board game, in which preoccupation with involved scenarios of the life to come became an excuse to measure out one's life in Hail Marys and First Fridays while ignoring real moral concerns. Not only did this baroque...
...bigger increases than would otherwise be needed. The Republican Congress, however, did at least propose to slow the growth of Medicare spending by $270 billion over seven years. Clinton proposed cuts of $124 billion, but effectively demagogued the Republicans for proposing "drastic cuts." That kind of talk can only frighten the elderly into still more determined opposition to Medicare changes--any kind, ever...
...equanimity. "When I heard those statements," he says, "I thought, 'O-o-o-k-k-k-a-y. Well, that's interesting.' I'm not in that academic, seminary-trained world, and I think my faith is strong enough that the debate going on in that world doesn't frighten me. In fact, I think it's good. Perhaps we will all learn something we haven't known...
...intimidate black people and force them to live in fear. The Klan's activities (i.e. cross burnings, lynchings) also provided diversions for racist whites. Fortunately, the Klan is not able to terrorize black people as much anymore, and thus, the racist graffiti in Mather House does not really frighten anyone. It will not undermine the current state of race relations at the College. Yet, this graffiti demonstrates that even Harvard students still take pleasure in cowardly and despicable acts. It demonstrates the enduring nature of racial hatred in our society...