Word: frightener
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Being bombed or being invaded does not frighten the British half so much as the thought of being blockaded. Rising fears of this eventuality were made plain last week when the Admiralty admitted the loss of 182,848 tons in the fortnight ended Dec. 8, and Britain continued to cast about anxiously for additional tonnage, present and future...
...American correspondents in Europe today, I would like to point out that Hitler's war is not a personal war against the U. S. newspaper men in Europe. In Asia, however, the frustrated Japanese war lords blame the American correspondents in Shanghai and elsewhere for their failure to frighten and befuddle the U. S. and disorganize the Chinese in the occupied areas. The Japanese and their hirelings are today waging a personal war upon those heroes of the American press-Randall Gould, J. B. Powell, T. H. White, Tillman Durdin, Arch Steele and Hal Abend...
...about patching up this mischief, sees no hope except in "a new temporal order inspired by Christianity." Man's basic need, he says, is a return to the "integral humanism" of Aquinas, a new philosophy of the person. Maritain's new society would be democratic, but would frighten good bourgeois citizens...
...Seghisoara? Isn't it awful that the Nazi G. H. Q. is to be in the building where Carol's guards used to stay? Wasn't it typical of the Germans to fly the whole Rumanian Air Force over our heads today, as if that would frighten...
Declaring that Baptism of Fire sequences might frighten prospective draftees, Mrs. Carroll had dismissed the new edition because: "The Board thinks it is psychologically bad for the people . . . has a tendency to corrupt and debase morals; and is not proper." The Court, finding that the Board had failed to act "arbitrarily or capriciously," decided it had no power to reverse the ruling. It further observed...