Word: frightener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Billy Sunday-Try praising your wife, even if it does frighten her at first...
...lowered the boom at the first late payment, embezzled the savings of his ignorant tenants, and screamed at them just to stay in abad humor. When beggars knocked at his door, he screwed up his face till he looked like a huge, ferocious dog, and snarled and barked to frighten them away...
...panic in such preparations, and the nation's basic mood was well expressed by Dr. Rufus Clement, president of Georgia's Atlanta University. Said he: "If we back down at any time because of threats, it will inevitably lead to surrender. The Soviets have decided to frighten the free world into accepting their aim. They must be met-calmly...
...military reasons for Khrushchev's decision, its timing and tone were clearly designed with the primary and primitive object of creating an aura of terror. The immediate object was 1) to divide and cow the Western powers themselves in the approach to the negotiation table, 2) to frighten the neutrals into clamoring for Western concessions in Berlin at any cost. In fact, he tacitly admitted as much last week to two visiting left-wing British politicians. He told them frankly that he had resumed nuclear testing to shock the West into negotiations on Germany. And, having just torpedoed...
...Berlin by jeopardizing the communications . . . and the position of the American, British and French troops there . . . I proclaim once again that there is no chance of this being accepted." If Nikita Khrushchev really wants peace, declared De Gaulle, he will not get it "by making offstage thunder" to frighten the world...