Word: frightener
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...months before Pearl Harbor. "It will be a crime for these two countries to fight each other," he told Moore, adding sadly, "but the crime will be committed." And when war seemed inevitable Nomura shuffled his arguments and began to talk of Japan's strength, hoping thereby to frighten U.S. officials. "Americans," he said, "were underestimating the difficulties which he, as a naval man, knew we should have in waging war across the Pacific." He spoke of the distances, the strategic position of Japan, the necessity for America to maintain long lines of supply ships for our naval vessels...
...diplomacy and policies they frighten...
Army Needed. By then Policeman Henderson will need a super-colossal army of price police. Originally estimated at 90,000, a number high enough to frighten all retailers, its size has already been cut by the Budget Bureau to 60,000. Of this, said OPA, only about 15,000 will be price cops, the rest clerks. This will set only one price cop to watch every 1,500 stores. Last week it seemed that Congress might whittle the force some more. Congressmen were angry and disappointed because Leon Henderson had failed to "consult" them on appointments. Regional and State administrators...
...Teachers. New York City's school kids come from homes that speak 40 different languages. They live in some of the world's worst slums, have one of the world's highest juvenile delinquency rates. In Harlem and Brooklyn no man's lands, boys sometimes frighten their teach ers by pulling knives in classrooms. At least 5,000 of the city's schoolboys are chronic truants...
...other blot is apt to frighten subjects who are unhappy or unstable, but "normal" people merely call it a bearskin rug or an animal's skin. Schizoid personalities sometimes see a man's face in the dark shadows, but sexually frustrated women see a gorilla or some other strong masculine figure, chasing them...