Word: frightener
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Militarily, the conflict in Laos was strictly small bore. Why, then, had Red China wheeled up such heavy political artillery? The minimum Communist ambition may be to frighten Phoui into accepting return of the international control commission and readmitting the Laotian Reds into his government. But this seemed hardly worth a fuss that might queer Khrushchev's trip to the U.S.-unless, as some British diplomats speculate, it was Mao's way of reminding Khrushchev that Red China does not want any thaw in U.S.-Russian relations. The U.S. State Department, however, implicitly accused Moscow of complicity...
...course, I had a false identity"). Two days later he was in Algiers, whipping up the crowd with shouts of "Vive De Gaulle!" and working behind the scenes to ensure that the insurrection did not grow into more than he intended it to be: a threatening gesture that would frighten France's reluctant party politicians into accepting De Gaulle on the general's own terms...
...Mort Sahl: "Our outlook is similar because we have a similar approach to many things, and because some of the same things frighten...
...General Landa ordered the murals boarded up, explained plaintively: "The actors wanted the mural to depict scenes related to their art." Siqueiros promptly let out a cry of rage, called it wanton censorship, threatened to take the issue to the actors themselves, by "force if necessary; jail does not frighten me." With the fire of battle glinting once again in his green eyes, Siqueiros scoffed: "What kind of tragedy did you expect me to portray in a mural?°A Greek tragedy? Nonsense. For me, tragedy in present-day Mexico is the struggle of labor to become independent of government...
...young rooster," and warned him that in case of war "West Germany would be the first country to go up in flames." In America, he said, "people who incite to war are even listened to by Senators," but if such admirals and generals hope by their "crazy declarations" to frighten Russians, "as the saying goes, look for fools in some other village, there are none in ours...