Word: frightener
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...Papa was no killjoy. He was often in the mood for pranks. "Once we were all going bathing, and we girls and Papa hurried on ahead and hid in the hollow, and when Mamma, Auntie and Strakhov were passing Papa set up a howl like a wolf, to frighten them, but spoiled it all because he said,'Now all howl,' so loudly...
...Free Lawyers of the Soviet Zone was founded by Dr. Theo Friedenau, 39-year-old lawyer, who has a 500,000 East mark Communist price tag on his head. His organization of 3.000 East German lawyers, judges and public officials exposes Soviet zone perversions of justice and tries to frighten Communist officials by reporting their crimes to Friedenau in Berlin...
...test cases now under way in important fields." Valentine did not name the test cases, but it was a good bet that he was thinking about the steel industry, where a wage increase is sure to be followed by a price rise. Perhaps Dr. Valentine was trying to frighten other businessmen who had price rises in mind...
Like a doctor prescribing a diet, the National Production Authority has been cautious about telling businessmen what they would have to cut out in favor of arms production. NPA did not want to frighten the patient too much. But last week NPA-and other Washington bureaus-thought it was safe to start getting tough and to begin squeezing off more civilian production...
These two stuffed beasts set the theme of the Zoological Museum--the struggle between man and beast, and the survival of the fittest. It is something to shame men everywhere, and to frighten them too. For this struggle has not been a one-way persecution. Beasts, it seems, have harkened to the biblical injunction, "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth...