Word: frightenedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exciting of several new tourist hotels is Tigertops, which is built on stilts (like Kenya's Tree Tops) overlooking Nepal's fabled tiger country. Nepal also has some less awesome sights, such as Katmandu's Hindu temples, whose timbers are decorated with erotic carvings designed to frighten off the virginal goddess of lightning. Obviously they are not frightening off foreigners. Last year 12,500 visited Nepal and, if Mahendra can continue to keep his neighbors quiet, many more are expected to visit his lofty realm this year...
...touch of sly wit, undaunted Post Publisher Dorothy Schiff said: "I have great respect for the judgment of the New York Times, and if they have come to the conclusion to stay out of the afternoon, they are probably right." Not that the threat of the Times seemed to frighten her very much. "I really didn't do too much thinking about it. I've seen so many papers come and go that it really doesn't worry me too much. If we survived the merger of those three papers into the World Journal Tribune, nothing worries...
...contests for the presidency and a 60-seat Senate entered the final week, Communist terrorists began campaigning with a vengeance to frighten voters away from the polls. In one day, in a coordinated series of attacks the length of the narrow nation, guerrillas killed or wounded nearly 400 Vietnamese. The old imperial capital of Hue was mortared; a Viet Cong battalion briefly took over the provincial capital of Hoi An, 15 miles south of Danang, leaving 60 Vietnamese casualties be hind; south of Saigon a village housing Viet Cong defectors was assaulted. The major attack was a 10-minute rocket...
...bigger advertising agencies have their own p.r. departments, notably J. Walter Thompson. Among its recent campaigns: to publicize a marine motor firm, it arranged underwater tests to see whether outboard motors frighten fish (they don't, at least in J. Walter Thompson's view); to push a mouthwash, the agency sent a Negro model into ghetto high schools to lecture on grooming and personal hygiene...
...continuously doubt the future. My faith is behind me, not out in front. I am not drawn ahead by the apron strings of heaven; I am pushing at crashing speeds into the unknowns. I've made no contract with God; his promises and threats do not interest or frighten me. My power is in me, in all of us. Life is this power...