Word: frightener
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...down on a sofa to prove he's an imbecile. And who is he to criticize Brooke Shields or any other woman who seeks medical help for postpartum depression? Is Cruise really against prescription drugs, or does the idea of a strong woman taking charge of her health frighten him? Cruise's opinions belong in the Dark Ages. He needs to leave health-care options to medical professionals and their patients. Janice Fisher Midlothian, Virginia, U.S. Cruise's nutty behavior on Oprah was an example of what happens to superstars who reach the top and have no place...
...white enclave hemmed in by black neighborhoods, Elmwood has long been plagued by racial tensions. Angry whites there have accused real estate brokers of blockbusting, an old and devious practice of moving black families into a white neighborhood to frighten residents into selling at rock-bottom prices...
...films Ismail Merchant made with director James Ivory in 44 years?they shared a line in the Guinness Book of World Records for the most enduring movie partnership?were stately endeavors, with nary a monster shouting Boo! to frighten the children. But Merchant's death in London last week at 68, after an ulcer burst in his abdomen, was a shock to the international film community. A genial friend had left life's banquet much too early...
Such threats frighten the East Asian nations, which have come to rely upon the U.S. as a benevolent trading partner. Said Narongchai Akrasanee, managing director of Thailand's Industrial Management Co.: "Our big brother, the U.S., is threatening to declare a trade war with the rest of the family." Complained Suh Sang Mok, vice president of the Korea Development Institute: "A lot of people in South Korea feel that it is being picked out as a sacrificial lamb...
...could bring peace in one shot, then use the thing. But a strong impulse for retribution must have applied as well. Harold Agnew was not alone in feeling that the Japanese "bloody well deserved" Hiroshima. There is also a theory that the U.S. used the Bomb as much to frighten the Soviets, with whom it was about to divide the world, as to win the war with Japan. More have dismissed this theory than embraced it. The Soviets, however, believe it to this...