Word: frightener
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...from Radio Cairo was once enough to start a riot, Nasser's rantings produced not a murmur among Jordan's 500,000 Palestinian Arab refugees, and scores of refugee leaders trooped to the palace to pledge their loyalty. If Nasser's campaign had been designed to frighten Iraq's King Feisal or Saudi Arabia's Saud as a demonstration of what could be done to them, it failed even more miserably. Instead, it brought fresh evidence of the growing isolation of Egypt and Syria in the Arab world. Answering a plea from six Iraqi religious...
From this bit of kidding was hatched a most devious and deceitful plot to frighten the varsity's opponents...
Fatuous End. Careful never to mention their German connections, foreign operatives in Portugal did their best to frighten Windsor with cooked-up tales of Churchillian vengeance directed against him through Britain's intelligence service. An ominous warning was slipped into a bouquet of flowers presented to the Duchess. "A firing of shots . . . through the bedroom window," wrote the German minister to Ribbentrop, "scheduled for the night of July 30, was omitted, since the psychological effect on the Duchess would only have been to increase her desire to depart, [but] through steady undermining of their sense of security, the Duke...
Without Big Klu to flex his muscles and frighten opposing pitchers, every club in the league picked the Redlegs as roundheeled patsies. They had not figured on Birdie Tebbetts. This season's success is not so much a matter of tactics on the field as it is a triumph of Tebbetts' psychology in the clubhouse. Maybe off the diamond the Redlegs will never learn their manager's supreme self-confidence, the positive faith that no man is his superior; maybe some of them sometimes settle for second best-say, in arguments with their wives...
...wheeze. When bandits hopped the fence of his Beverly Hills estate last week, bound him with neckties and began looting the place, the 67-year-old Dane huffed and puffed like a heart-attack victim, sagged to his chair in feigned death throes (Tristan und Isolde, Act III) to frighten them off. Said he: "I am something of an actor. I let my tongue hang out of my mouth, and my eyes rolled in my head. I was never better. They were frightened...