Word: frightener
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...Said Pakistan's Abbas Khaleeli: ". . . We are today free and independent nations, capable of looking after ourselves . . . We have accepted foreign aid on conditions and terms that have been freely negotiated and are fully to our advantage . . . We of Asia have come of age and . . . bogeymen do not frighten us so easily...
...Kurds don't particularly like the Russians. Mothers frighten their babies with the threat: "The Russians will get you." Nevertheless, the Russians are winning the battle for the Kurds' allegiance, hands down...
...Ramoosics, also panderers, had a side interest in a bungalow-protection racket. The Bhamptas were railroad thieves. Their favorite trick, best performed on a crowded train, was to frighten a baby, slide to the floor to comfort it, and meanwhile slit open the baggage of the other passengers. The Kolis impersonated cops: descending on a village, they would arrest the village constable on some phony charge, then strip the village. Other groups became counterfeiters, moonshiners, muggers. Children learned crime at their mother's knee. Some tribes pressed a silver rupee, fastened to a piece of string, into a newborn...
...killers were Communists. Wearing stolen uniforms, they were carrying out orders issued by the Central Committee of the South Viet Nam Communist Party from its secret headquarters in the swamps. The order: indiscriminate terrorism. The Communists' aim: to frighten people from supporting the new Nguyen Van Tarn government. In the eight weeks since the government was formed, they have committed 67 murders, 87 attempted murders, and nine kidnapings. But no outrage yet matched that at the Cap St. Jacques. When French soldiers reached the dining room, they found eight officers, six children, two women and four Vietnamese servants dead...
...questions about my falling in love with [Rossellini]. I'll give her an explanation. She is entitled to know. At her age now, some of it she will understand and some of it she will not. But in any case, it is wrong for people to frighten her about his influence...