Word: frightenedly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Many other South Vietnamese have been killed in the random violence designed to paralyze South Viet Nam and frighten its people into abandoning the government. Forty-three were killed and 80 injured, most of them civilians, when terrorists dynamited the My Canh floating restaurant in Saigon in 1965. Forty-eight farm laborers were killed and seven others injured when Viet Cong mines exploded under a bus and another vehicle on a road near...
...with this war that has grown out of us (do not make it into a mistake), and that we wish to disown a part of ourselves. The sight of the Capitol does not make our heart skip a beat anymore, if it ever did. Nixon on television does not frighten us, but only saddens us further. Our communal alienation may also be our hope, but orphans with no place to go may soon become Weathermen...
...real estate deal was apparently innocuous and innocent, but Baker's name is enough to frighten most politicians. To some Republicans, Haynsworth's questionable judgment, described by one G.O.P. Senator as not a matter of dishonesty but "ethical opaqueness," combined with Bobby Baker, was too much. No matter what the facts were, they feared that Haynsworth would be condemned by the public...
...spoken man offscreen, he manages to give himself bulk and ferocity as a man driven up the walls of el barrio by the conflict of pride and circumstance. As a comedian, he clambers over the film to reach the top rank of American performers. Barking like a watchdog to frighten off apartment thieves, or purifying English curses into harmless Spanish, Arkin transforms slapstick into exuberant social comment...
...when newly formed Chinese opposition parties cut heavily into the Alliance's majority in parliamentary elections. It became suddenly apparent that many Chinese were no longer satisfied with just economic hegemony, but wanted a protective share of the political power as well. Nothing was more surely calculated to frighten the Malays, in particular the Malay "ultras" (right-wingers), who have long preached the doctrine of Malaysia for the Malays. Alarmed, the ultras began to discuss ways of retaining control. At a Malay post-election meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Chinese onlookers began to taunt those in attendance. Infuriated, the Malays...