Word: frightener
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...Some of these labor organizations are beginning to take on the color of the old Anti-Saloon crowd in its palmy days before Repeal. They have the same kind of political and financial power to coerce government agencies, to threaten individual Congressmen and to frighten liberal critics by labeling them as opponents of a great moral cause. . . . Independent businessmen, consumers and farmers have had to sit back in enraged helplessness while labor used coercion for the following purposes: Price control, eliminating cheap methods of distribution, creating local trade barriers by restricting the use of materials made outside the state, preventing...
...pretend to know anything about the art or science of war, if it is either, but I think I know something about the German psychology and the fact that they themselves lay such stress on air raids, the fact that they think thereby to terrorize and frighten, is indubitable proof that nothing would terrorize them so much as to look up some fine morning and see the air black with American flying machines...
...frighten the Allies the Badoglio Government dressed up an old bogey. Said the Rome radio: "Every bomb razing a house to the ground opens the road to subversive ideas and creates a hotbed of revolution. . . . What victory . . . what security can the Anglo-Americans draw from a Europe in the throes of revolution, permeated through and through by the Communist virus...
There is nothing in his past to frighten the old-line G.O.P. leaders (Rule 8), with whom he has worked closely for 23 years. He is supported, but not too ostentatiously, by the wealthy Pew, Du Pont and Columbia Gas & Electric interests (Rule 9). Since the first of the year he has let the voters see him (Rule 10) in speech-making appearances in Chicago, Nashville, Manhattan, Lincoln...
...they answered: 'Frighten? Why should anyone be frightened...