Word: frightener
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...Wilhelmstrasse was worried. Ever since the anti-Red Hitler boojum began to frighten the Kremlin, France has been courting Russia, sending first Edouard Harriot (TIME, Sept. 11), then French Air Minister Pierre Cot to Moscow. Berlin last week dared antagonize Moscow no further. The Leipzig police department and the German Foreign Office hastened to send regrets...
...Danielian explained when reached late last night, "The suit is an attempt to frighten other publications from revealing the occult nature of the Associated Gas and Electric system and the oblique practices therein perpetrated. I have no further opinion to express. I wish, however, it were possible to sound out the feelings of the hundreds of thousands of investors who have been bewildered by the sophisticated use made of the corporate device...
...Battle of the Bands. On the frontier near Innsbruck stands a great mountain, the Zugspitze. Up the Bavarian side clambered a sweating, puffing Nazi brass band. Up the other side went the band of Vienna's favorite Deutschmeister regiment. Near the summit both bands proceeded to frighten eagles from their eyries by blaring Nazi and Austrian patriotic songs, simultaneously...
...Moreover, he contended that habitual reliance on engine power causes a pilot to lose his ability to make a forced landing "deadstick" if necessary. Oldtime pilots prefer not to rumble, Mr. Simmonds found; but operators insist on it because a glide sometimes entails dips, swoops and sideslips which may frighten passengers...
...Herald & Examiner had previously asserted that the deficit was really only some $5,000,000, to which the Board had added $2,600,000 in anticipation of a hypothetical decrease in tax revenues. Now Dean Judd charged outright that the Board had deliberately misstated the deficit in order to frighten the public into accepting its cuts. Even if it were trying to wipe out in one year the deficit accumulated since 1929, that, at 1932's end, had been less than $7,000,000. As for 1933's genuine deficit of $1,162,940, that had already been...