Word: frightener
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...unique job, a terrible job, a job that would frighten almost any man. In no other country does one man carry so many back-breaking duties on his shoulders. Only snow-haired Bernard Mannes Baruch, now a frequent Byrnes visitor, ever had comparable responsibility in the U.S. when he was head of the War Industries Board in World War I-and the strain on him had not yet become unbearable by the time the war ended...
...They emerged like cats from everywhere, knives between their teeth. Flares did not frighten them. They broke into our right flank. Then the terrible thing happened that froze the blood of all of us. ... Men, women and children flung themselves into the attack...
After a full decade as a bogie-man, an ogre, a name to frighten children and Republicans, Horrible Harold Ickes had found that somebody loved him after...
...Tokyo's purpose was to frighten U.S. airmen with threats of savage punishment ("including the death penalty"), Tokyo had failed. If an incidental purpose was to further Berlin's prisoner-propaganda, the Japs had succeeded. If their purpose was to discredit U.S. official spokesmen, they had a certain measure of success. The Office of War Information argued that there were sensible-but secret-reasons for withholding the fact that some flyers had landed in Japanese territory. If so, this did not excuse falsification, and it did not better the plight of the captured pawns...
...unknown water wasteland of Pasley Bay. Dropping anchor in a storm to save themselves from reefs, they were caught for eleven months when open water turned suddenly to eight feet of ice. "We struck a very bad season," said Sergeant Larsen, whose idea of a good season would frighten most men to death. The men blasted huge ice floes and icebergs threatening the uniquely tough hull of the St. Roch, which was copper sheathed and overlaid with ice-resisting Australian ironbark. The St. Roch stayed upright and whole when ice crashing by lifted her straight up out of the water...