Word: frightener
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Israelis have been wounded at Arab hands, and the country is under almost daily attacks that all the Israeli retaliation strikes have not been able to still. In their cafes and kibbutzim, Israelis, too, talk of a fourth round?while disparaging the Arab "war propaganda" as designed only to frighten the big-power diplomats. Within what they consider Fortress Israel, the Israelis regard with deep suspicion any outside attempt to bargain away the occupied territories that provide them with a measure of security, if not of peace...
...several other cities this fall. The director of the clearinghouse, Dr. Daniel Horn, a pioneer cancer researcher, urges medical men to deliver anti-smoking appeals while they treat patients in their offices. Horn figures that, in less than a minute, doctors and dentsts can recite enough evidence to frighten a smoker...
...seemed probable that the executions took place mainly to frighten the regime's internal enemies. That assumption was reinforced by reports that Baghdad was secretly trying as "spies" 35 more, including 13 Jews, and holding hundreds of others in jail. They include former Premier Abdel Rahman Bazzaz and ex-Defense Minister Major General Abdel Aziz Uqaili. Also among them was an American engineer, Paul Bail, who was on loan from Esso to the Iraq Petroleum Co. Friends said that Iraqi police apparently suspected that an elaborate hi-fi set in his home was actually a radio transmitter. Baghdad later...
...crisis was an international affair in which the West German mark was deeply involved. In the French view, the mark was so strong that it was pulling other currencies off balance. By refusing to devalue, De Gaulle could perhaps bring about a situation in which the Germans would be frightened into increasing the exchange rate of the mark. That would automatically strengthen the franc by making German goods dearer on the world market. De Gaulle also knew that a devaluation would frighten the French, reminding them of the financial instability of the Fourth Republic before he came to France...
...because of his mixture of ferocity and tenderness. And by ferocity I don't mean bloodthirstiness. I mean voltage, energy, fire. I love the explosions, the wildness, the terror in his music. There are very few composers who manage to generate terror. Berlioz really does. He can frighten...