Word: frightener
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...ISSUE with the administration's use of official police photographers to identify and intimidate students. During the protest, Harvard police officers armed with still and video cameras repeatedly swept through the crowd. One snapped so many pictures of the same students that it was clear his intent was to frighten rather than simply identify them. Those students who gathered to watch or report on the protest--hardly a violation of University rules--were photographed just like everyone else...
Riggs had underestimated just how murderous America's urban battlegrounds could be: "I just got back from where they were firing missiles at my head," he said on his return to Detroit's mean streets, where gunfire is all too common. "Those bullets aren't going to frighten me now." A few hours after he died, a letter from Riggs arrived, dated Feb. 22. "I have no intentions on becoming one of this war's casualties," he wrote. But he was talking about the wrong...
...spate of scholarly studies has demonstrated that the offenses to quality of ) life that police now routinely overlook -- such things as loud radios, graffiti and aggressive panhandling -- create an atmosphere in which more serious crime is likely to occur. Those petty disturbances are the ones that trouble and frighten ordinary citizens the most. In turn, their fear acts like an acid to disintegrate neighborhood ties. It leads citizens to shun the streets and abdicate responsibility for conditions outside their doors. That invites a dismal cycle of deteriorating conditions, more fear -- and more crime...
...with his two buddies and said, `Why don't you buy me a drink?' I said, `Why?' He said, `Because you look rich.' I told him this jacket probably cost less than your $300 leather jacket, and he just shut up." Mitchell says the confrontation did not frighten him away from...
Mike hears voices inside his head and sees things that are not there. Frightening things, like snakes and abandoned babies. Sometimes, when the hallucinations become too vivid, Mike erupts in hostile words and angry gestures that frighten other people. Twenty-five years ago, Mike would probably have been locked away in a state mental hospital in some secluded locale. Today, however, he lives on a bench in Manhattan's Central Park...