Word: frightener
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With the success Harvard has had this year, none of these numbers should frighten it. After all, if it can survive a hurricane, why should it be afraid of an overgrown...
...discipline and experience among the Americans, who had been badly shocked by the North Korean assault. "The first U.S. units into Korea were not much more than a mob in uniform," says Bernard Trainor, a military scholar and retired three-star Marine general who fought there. "They'd frighten quickly, and when they'd come under fire, they'd panic." But there was far more terror under the arches. "It was the worst hell that I could imagine," says Park Sun Yong, who was 23 at the time. The creek ran red with blood. Park's two-year-old daughter...
Taken as a trend, these optimistic titles frighten me. They are the product of a stock market that has gone higher, faster, than just about anyone expected. It's natural to project the recent past to the future. But it's also natural for things to change. Long periods of disappointment have followed long periods of heady market gains at least twice this century...
This season, Mager deservedly earned the reputation as one of the nation's most intimidating threats on the court. Able to frighten opponents by slapping down thunderous kills, Mager led the Crimson with a .392 hitting percentage and an average of 3.842 kills per game...
...joked that he was going to have four wives: one to shine his shoes, one to feed him grapes, one to rub oil on his muscles and one named Peaches. In his boyhood he was ever the prankster and the practical joker. His idea of fun was to frighten his parents--putting a sheet over his head and jumping out at them from a closet, or tying a string to a bedroom curtain and making it move after his parents had gone...