Word: frightener
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...assurance of her own financial and political solidity, staid England has resigned herself to an impending interlude of Labor government. But it is evident that the rule of these heretofore political pariahs is being tolerated only as an interlude, to serve perhaps as a horrible example which will frighten the more conservative elements of the other two parties into a firm and workable coalition...
When you tried to frighten us and failed...
...unquestionably men. The hero shoots his brother, almost dies of thirst, kills a man barehanded, engages in unsuccessful battle with a rattlesnake. "Death Valley", that California waste of bleached bones and sunstroke, is the locality chosen by one of the unpleasanter characters in which to frighten his wife to death...
...come in motor trucks and by train. They are armed and wear police badges. Others follow them, and all at once the Lester mine commences a feverish production. For a day or two nothing happens, and then the mine guards begin to patrol the highways. They search passersby, they frighten women, they boast and are hardboiled, as professional scabs and company detectives usually...
...title frighten you. It is a very accurate name that introduces one of the most delightful little books that has been written in many a day. Although the subject is the politics of a university, the description might well apply to any politics. But it would be foolish to try to point out the ways in which the book could be applied to other fields; nothing could improve it. Never was a more subtle, more penetrating, more ironical cosmography written...