Word: frightenedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...State Circus Trust.) Calmly, point by point-in a parody of Khrushchev's own speech in 1956 enumerating Stalin's errors-Pushkov proves to a Communist Party Congress that the man who once had only to pound on a U.N. desk with his shoe to frighten the world has really been utterly inept. In fact, suggests Pushkov (and Author Beal) in a pointed reversal of cliches, it was the Russian bigwigs who saw Khrushchev "playing American roulette with Russian security" and looked on with dismay as he became "soft" on capitalism...
...25th floor. "There is no 25th floor in this building," comes the voice over the loudspeaker. The passenger explains that, nonsense, he has worked here for years. He gives his name. "Never heard of you," says the loudspeaker. "Easy," the passenger tells himself. "They are just trying to frighten...
...scar running from ear to chin and has been known, during an "interrogation." to gouge out the eye of a suspect. Both are murdered by White officers who prove gentlemanly enough to spare the Cossack driver: "Several shots had been sent after him, but evidently more in order to frighten him than to hit him, for he said they whistled high above his head...
...constructed to be chopped off after any paragraph. It is not just simple writing; it is good writing (and, although Lindstrom does not recognize it, there is a difference between simplicity and quality). But the chief virtue of the Times is the very bulk and solidity that frighten away some prospective readers...
...measure of the strength of De Gaulle's opposition came not in the streets but in the Assembly itself. At issue was De Gaulle's cherished and expensive project to give France a nuclear "striking force" of its own. Cracked one deputy: "It is too small to frighten our enemies and just large enough to keep our friends from helping us." If France builds up its nuclear force outside of NATO, argued Socialist ex-Premier Guy Mollet, so could West Germany. He asked: "In the name of what principle will you oppose tomorrow Germany's demands...