Word: frightener
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...candidates will employ extreme measures to capture the loyalty of the independent voter. Some speeches this fall will sound like mud-slinging more violent than accurate; others will make you think that the world will explode if whoosis doesn't become the next whatsis. Don't let the fireworks frighten you; as the sociologists would say, they arise from the way the situation is defined...
Strong Terms. Deliberately, in an effort to frighten Congress, the President stated his case in strong terms. He predicted that under the Taft amendment the prices of automobiles would immediately rise $250; those of washing machines...
There were still economic classicists who wanted to end OPA. A familiar rumble came from the National Association of Manufacturers' President, Robert, Wason: "OPA is trying to fool you and the American people in the hope that it can frighten you into extending its power for another year." And a less expected voice, that of Minnesota's Republican Senator Joseph Ball cried: "OPA [is] the most important single collection of American fascists...
...Conservatives' Central Council he made the issue splendidly plain. Socialism now was not a radical specter with which to frighten commonsensical Britons at election time; it must be presented now as a bureaucratic barrier between Britons and the better life they wanted...
...Name Is Julia Ross (Columbia) sets out to frighten its customers - and does a pretty expert job. A young girl (Nina Foch), looking for employment in London, finds herself eagerly - ah, too eagerly - employed as secretary to a re spectable-looking old lady (Dame May Whitty). It soon appears that she has been hired as a full-time victim in a family of determined killers. Kept on a diet of Mickey Finns in the locked room of a lonely, cliffbound house with a dizzying view of the sea, she has every reason to feel insecure...