Word: frightenedly
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...means on all campuses (though it is generally accepted at the biggest ones). It is virtually out in the South. Most parents almost anywhere are still deeply troubled if not outraged by it, and "Guess who's coming to dinner, Mom?" is a line to frighten not a few households. But compared with a few years ago, the custom has increased dramatically. "It's no big thing any more," says a blonde 17-year-old who graduated from California's El Cerrito High School. Nor need mixed couples date furtively and clandestinely. Today they do it openly...
...August who confessed to the murder of one of the blacks, Auburey Pollard Jr.--the only one of the murders which can be ascribed to a definite killer. His colleagues, attempting to frighten the civilians into revealing the identity of the non-existent sniper, had taken several of the blacks into separate roms, fired some shots into the ceiling, and returned to the motel residents left lined up in the hallway saying things like "that one didn't even kick." One of the other officers then asked August, "Do you want to kill one now?" August answered...
...bounced them, instructing his ministers to draw up another set that would go much further. Though he seems fully committed to far-reaching reform, De Gaulle may find that he is pursuing mutually exclusive goals. As he grants more power to workers, for example, he almost certainly will frighten away the investment capital that he needs to revitalize and modernize France's ailing economy. And by polarizing the French, he has tended to build higher and stronger the wall that separates his country into two hostile parts...
...Jerusalem between helmeted police and a procession of mourners on their way to a Moslem cemetery. The police were stoned when they tried to limit the number of Arabs entering the Damascus Gate and responded with a charge. The Israelis also fired their weapons in the air to frighten away Arab demonstrators heading in the direction of the Wailing Wall, where they might have collided with praying Jews...
...almost alone among the actors in that he is constantly acting, rather than relying on the sheer force of the production to bear him along. Well-matched, his intensity could produce those volleys of humor which mark the best of G&S. Last night he seemed to frighten the rest of the cast...