Word: frightener
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...Three Bathers Surprised by a Monster, starts with some random splatters of ink on the blank page; briskly and humorously, with a few minimal strokes, one of these blot clusters is converted into the animal face of a creature with haglike breasts that surges out of a pool to frighten the bathing nymphs...
...created an atomic weapon, perhaps combined with a demonstration detonation and a surrender ultimatum that made clear that Japan could retain its Emperor. Likewise McCullough skirts the tortured debate on "atomic diplomacy," reducing it to the question of whether the Bomb was dropped in part to frighten the Soviets and then quickly dismissing this theory without exploring the complexities of revisionist arguments over the causes of the cold...
...many of those cities were able to negotiate their expansion deals before their urban centers had deteriorated enough to frighten the outlying areas. "Generally speaking, the cities that have had luck in annexing were the ones that were not too troubled or low income to begin with," says Kevin Phillips, the ex-Nixon aide who first identified the gop advantage in suburbia in his 1969 book The Emerging Republican Majority. "When it's a problem city, the suburbs fight like hell, and they can usually succeed...
...great tradition of Stalin andJoseph McCarthy when he says that writing a parodyis an act of terrorism," Dershowitz said. "I'mopposed to ... faculty members who use theirstatus as faculty members to terrorize studentsand to frighten them away from exercising theirfree speech...
...four, she returned to Hope and married Roger Clinton, a Buick dealer who moved the family to Hot Springs. Bill's stepfather was an alcoholic who sometimes beat Virginia and once fired a gun at her in their living room (she insists to this day he intended only to frighten, not to injure, her). Virginia and Roger divorced but quickly remarried; as a gesture to help keep the family together, Bill, then 15, had his name legally changed to Clinton...