Word: frightener
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...days bore and frighten me at the same time. I say they bore because they are full of routines, and because I simply have not come to terms with the whole idea of being at Harvard University, school of the free and home of the brave. I say they frighten because I look around me and see that I am sitting still in a very fast-paced world. While I contemplate my problems or my inadequacies, I am letting unique opportunities go unexplored...
...party. This won't be difficult. The hard right that Bush pandered to this year will take much of the blame for his loss. Prochoice, pro-gay rights Gov. William F. Weld '66 is poised to benefit greatly from this--the idea of a Kemp-Weld '96 ticket should frighten any Clintonite...
...Machiavellian" move intended to appeal to conservative whites. The strategic appraisal, though not the overheated rhetoric, was sound. Clinton was in fact emphasizing his independence from the special interests, militant blacks among them, that had seemed to exercise so much power in the party as to frighten away many middle-class white voters who became the famous Reagan Democrats. Jackson's interest in keeping the fight alive, however, was one he could not make public; in a private meeting between the two to iron out their differences over Sister Souljah, Clinton told Jackson that he would not be considered...
...first half of the film is enjoyably fast-paced--and horrifying. The actors and actresses are accomplished and convincing as they are tormented in their ordeal. Friedkin proves that he can thrill and frighten, but he also has a point to make: The boundaries of law and ethics are fragile and often meaningless...
...whatever it takes to stop the slaughter of civilians," the President was driven to announce a flurry of new measures -- full diplomatic recognition of Slovenia and Bosnia, international monitoring of Balkan borders and a call for a U.N. resolution authorizing force to deliver humanitarian aid -- but hardly enough to frighten away Milosevic and his henchmen...