Word: frightener
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...cleric can fail to inject a religious element into the organization. And with PBH's hymn-singing days far behind, such an element would be undesirable because Brooks House's function is now to offer opportunities for social service along secular lines. Heading this institution with sectarians might well frighten off undergraduates who prefer to eschew organized religion in their extracurricular activities. Further, a divinity school Secretary will probably have trouble convincing parochial settlements that Brooks House workers will keep their gospel social...
Said the Louisville Courier-Journal in an editorial: A "clear attempt to silence press criticism [was] launched this week . . . The hearing was, of course, a flagrant and cynical attempt to frighten more timid newspapers ... It did not intimidate Mr. Wechsler . . . But it will undoubtedly warn off other papers who might shrink from a brawl with low-blow Joe . . . We heartily endorse Mr. Wechsler's own demand that the American Society of Newspaper Editors study the transcript of this bullying private hearing...
...lollipop trade: Madeline is back, with her eleven straight-living little boarding-school friends and the noble Schoolmistress Clavel, in a rousing sequel. In Madeline's Rescue, Bemelmans takes up where he left off when he noted earlier of Madeline: "And nobody knew so well / How to frighten Miss Clavel." One of the frightening things Madeline liked to do was walking on bridge railings. This time she falls into the Seine, and "Poor Madeline would now be dead / But for a dog / That kept its head...
...concrete thing not state in Who's Who. But the News editors made some positive evaluations of the dictator. On March 13, "Tomorrow" explained, "Malenkov is untried, probably isolationist at heart, without knowledge of the world outside Russia, inherently cautious. Malenkov, even if he tries to be tough, will frighten less than Stalin". A week later, the editors reconsidered: "Malenkov is a much more dangerous man than Stalin. He's less cautious, more daring, more disdainful of words from the West...
Speaking at Wellesley, Eleanor Roosevelt told delegates from 25 colleges: "All we have done so far is to frighten the wits out of the American people ... I contend that faculties and presidents know their people better than anyone else and are better able to judge whether men and women are unfit to teach...