Word: frightener
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...Road to Peace. The first was the problem of the transition to peace. As the year opened, this looked mountainous. As it closed, it was not yet a molehill, but the bulldozers were at work. As a result, reconversion was no longer a bogey to frighten businessmen. In the days when the collapse of Germany was expected momentarily, the basic rules for reconversion had been hastily laid. Under them, some 95% of U.S. industry could see the path cleared to shift from war to peace production within two months after the green light was given...
...know and I know that it was not "a good fight." We know that it stank. We know that every possible chance was used by the speakers of the Republican Party to hit below the belt, to frighten the people by half-truths and pure lies. . . . What uniting is done, and the elections show that it will be done, will be in spite of the part the Republican "thinkers" have played, not because...
...supposed to forget. I hope not. And don't try to frighten us with the idea that all is lost unless we do forget and forgive, and work as one. We'll work as one, dragging the Roosevelt-haters with us, to a better world. But the Republican Party and the press had better wake up. I want to vote Republican again some day, but not until they start the ball rolling toward a real understanding of the real people...
...investments in Argentina (?387,000,000) were too great, her trade too important to jeopardize. There were other weapons than embargo. A U.S. threat to further arm Brazil and Chile might undermine the "Colonels' Clique." Large credits to set up competing industries in the same countries might frighten Argentine industrialists. Even so, the State Department, without assured British assistance, had reason to pause before taking any measures against Argentina...
...Park to watch them. Using some giant firecrackers and a small charge of gunpowder, they blew up the policeman's hut while he was inside. Later they eluded the police by sawing a hole through the iron railings around the park. Once they constructed a fiddle to frighten the neighbors. It had a box four feet long, three feet wide, and two feet deep, and a bow twelve feet long. It emitted an unearthly bellow...