Word: frightener
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...Longin as their guide, a delegation of three members-Stanley Orlenski, 14, Joe Sawicki, 14, and Anthony Mazur, 14-set out for vengeance. They found Joe Przystas at home carrying a scuttle of coal upstairs. Stanley drew a rifle from his trouser leg, fired at the coal scuttle to frighten Joe. The bullet drilled Joe's heart, killed...
...which he belongs, or of the village or town in which he lives." As fighters, however, he thought them unequaled. Never at a loss for words to express a low opinion, Wellington once remarked to his aide as his generals left a council of war: "They may not frighten the enemy, but by God, sir, they frighten...
When Governor Long arrived in Baton Rouge all was quiet. He dismissed the militia, but kept highway and city police on guard. Explained the Governor: "I was afraid he would try to seize the executive mansion and frighten my wife and children." Then he issued a manifesto declaring his henchman, Senate President (pro tern.) Alvin 0. King, lieutenant governor. "Taking the oath as Governor ends Dr. Cyr. He is no longer lieutenant governor and he is now nothing...
...When not in training he drinks as many as three bottles of champagne at a sitting, eats twice as many grapefruit, breakfasts on cornflakes which he prefers to pulverize by wrapping them up in a bath-towel and pounding the towel on the floor. Friendly, sociable, he likes to frighten the patrons of cabarets with his ferocious grin. For dancing companions, he prefers smallish, plump girls to one of whom (Emelia Tersini) his engagement was rumored and denied during the last year...
...promptly forced them down again, first at Eturup Island, where they stayed at a village inn; next day at Lake Annoro, where they spent another night in the plane and where the inhabitants lit fires on the lake shore to frighten away bears. Next day the Lindberghs flew the last 50 miles to Nemuro. From the balcony of the Nibiki Ryokan, where their beds had awaited them for four nights, Col. Lindbergh addressed the cheering populace. "We are glad to be in Nemuro," said...