Word: frightener
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...makes images of the War in the minds of his characters, Annette, Sylvie, Marc, Germain. "War could not frighten Annette. 'Everything is war,' she thought, 'war under a mask ... I am not afraid to meet you face to face.'" She finds in 1914 that the crisis she must meet is complicated by the fact that Marc, her illegitimate son, is old enough not to feel the need for maternal intimacy. She goes away from Paris to teach in a country academy, leaving Marc in the city with her sister, Sylvie. She becomes involved in a friendship...
Significance. The British are, at present, so thoroughly mistrusted if not actually detested by the Chinese Nationalists that strong British action cannot very well increase this hatred and may frighten the Chinese into making reparation for their seizure of the $60,000,000 British concession at Hankow (TIME, Jan. 17), and the shooting of two Britons at Nanking...
...damage done by an earthquake, 10 representing complete destruction and 1 representing an imperceptible tremor. The degrees between these extremes are measured according to whether chimneys are toppled, the amount of vibration felt by people, and so forth. The earthquake in Concord was probably about intensity 4, enough to frighten people...
...door with the most mysterious manner, there must be an added significance in the way you walk across the room. It is fun though to try and thrill the audience. Once the cast has them in its power we enter into the spirit of the thing and almost frighten ourselves. Again we have to rehearse one episode dozens of times to get the right effect...
...flagpole, then four more to the marquee over the sidewalk. There was a mesh of strong wire over the upper side of the marquee to protect the glass from things that might be dropped out of windows. Yes, the box would probably be broken to bits. It would frighten that woman? in the car in front of the hotel; it would make the traveling salesman** in front of the drugstore jump out of his skin. Slowly, cautiously, Mrs. Barron began to lower the box out of the window...