Word: frightenedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...families, the landlords of Fars have fought the land distribution law by helping to foment street riots in Teheran, falsifying ownership records with the connivance of provincial officials, forging ballots in local elections. Recently, the landlords won powerful allies by enlisting Moslem mullahs who are using their pulpits to frighten illiterate, landless peasants out of demanding their legal rights...
...council nevertheless passed the federation plan, which must now be approved by Britain's Parliament and will probably be enacted by March 1963. Abdullah Asnag, released from prison, vowed continued resistance. Said Middle East Command's CinC, Air Marshal Sir Charles Elworthy: "Terrorism doesn't frighten me. This command is on continuous twelve-hour alert for action anywhere, and it can operate regardless of any misguided campaign here. Aden is the only rampart between the Mediterranean and Singapore, and ours is the only force defending Western interests in the Middle East...
...Scottish scenery: "The noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to London." But he could poke fun at himself as well; asked if he would not start if he saw a ghost, he answered, "I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." But if the tour aroused Johnson's antic side, it aroused his antiquarian side even more. On the islands - Raasay and Skye and Mull - there were still feudal forms of life, clans and chieftains, Macdonalds and MacLeods and Macleans. There were ruins and grottoes, homely customs...
...interest in me," Empson once irreverently wrote, "a sense that this could be a good place to scratch." By close analysis, Empson has washed away many misreadings of poetry; by showing how varied and inventive poets are, he has often made them more exciting. But he may also frighten off readers who translate his lesson as: if you think you understand a poem, there is something wrong with you−or the poem. As a result, many a reader has felt that poetry was less a pleasure than a test, and decided not to bother with...
...detached when he added: "The Americans may fight 15 years there, but it will not help." Although he warned the U.S. against nuclear competition with Russia, and incidentally announced that he would resume testing, on the whole the Soviet Premier thought that the international situation was good: "The Americans frighten us with war, and we frighten them back a bit. They threaten us with nuclear arms, and we tell them: 'We have them too.' This is the situation, and this is why we think the situation is good...