Word: frightener
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From the standpoint of power politics the pact amounted to raising the ante in the hope of frightening the U. S. into dropping its hand so the Axis could rake in the pot. But if the Axis hoped to frighten the U. S. out of its everything-short-of-war policy of helping Great Britain, it had almost certainly failed. Since U. S. security in the Atlantic - hence liberty to maintain her Fleet in the Pacific-depends on the British Fleet, the U. S. could now do no less than help Britain more...
Last week, while screaming bombs were falling on London, C. Martin Wilbur, curator of Chinese archeology & ethnology at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, called attention to his exhibit of Chinese whistling arrows. They were used by Manchu bodyguards to frighten people off the streets when the emperor rode by. The large, blunt whistle head kept them from being dangerous...
...hair, a spoiled child's genius for misusing others, and a voracity for doing evil which grows in ratio to her sense of guilt. She works out on her niece Henrietta, on her sheeplike old nurse Nana, on the peasants, on an intense young priest who manages to frighten her. She becomes fascinated by an Oriental theory that one may be cleansed of venereal disease through sexual intercourse with a virgin child; that leads her to its spiritual parallel, the relief of her own evil through the corruption, or killing, of a pure soul. A young gypsy who happens...
...separated from his sawed-off polo stick, fans may think they recognize a gentle kidding of 20th Century-Fox's Po-loist-Producer Darryl F. Zanuck, who is also headstrong, also inseparable from a sawed-off polo stick with which he likes to frighten recalcitrant colleagues during conferences...
...opinion Stalin and Hitler are going to sit tight now, consolidate their gains, and let the Allies make the next more. Russia probably will not grab Bessarabia in the near future, because that might frighten the Turks into the war and with them the Allies, who probably will not be able to move into the Balkans unless Turkey is at war with Russia...