Word: frightenedly
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...prospective failure was large enough to threaten not only investors but much of the securities business. The firm about to go under was Goodbody & Co., whose 250,000 customer accounts make it the fifth biggest brokerage in the nation. The collapse of a company so huge seemed likely to frighten investors into withdrawing stock and cash from many other firms, triggering a panic...
...many ways, however, the new feminism is developing along the lines of the civil rights movement. A young, assertive Women's Liberation Movement has brought new publicity and fire to the older, more genteel crusade, bewildering and sometimes outraging men in the way that black radicals infuriate and frighten whites...
...furies rolled into one, "a dragon who pretends to be St. George." Golda was also Lady Macbeth, Medusa, a witch and Sophie Portnoy. When Moshe Dayan and Deputy Premier Yigal Allon lost in their bids for the Premiership Sylvie wrote: "These two generals are only good to fight and frighten Arabs. But they are afraid to say 'boo' to one old Jewish lady...
...race. Relaxed and genial as always in private conversation, he commutes from his trial to tell campaign audiences that Gibson is "part of a raw and violent conspiracy to turn this city over to LeRoi Jones and his extremist followers." Black Militant Jones, whose violence-filled plays and poems frighten many whites, is a childhood friend of Gibson's, was an early political supporter and still remains a political ally, though he stays strategically in the background...
...least 67 students out of the 200 picketing University Hall on May 11 are scheduled for CRR hearings beginning today. It should be evident that trying to weed out such a large number of students, or at least frighten them into fewer or no future political demonstrations, is an attempt doomed to failure...