Word: frightener
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...sexual intercourse. This is far and away the leading method of transmission, and to explain why requires being explicit; too often the mechanisms have been obscured by ambiguous phrases like "exchange of bodily fluids" that may frighten more people than they inform...
...combative oratory, his calls for divestiture and his references to the ruling Afrikaners as the "spiritual children of Adolf Hitler"--a very sensitive point, since many Afrikaners supported Nazi Germany in World War II. Vowing to proceed with the demonstration, Boesak insisted last week, "They will try to frighten us with the possibility of unleashing the enormous force of the government and the violence we have seen before. Yet the march is going ahead." On Tuesday afternoon Boesak, a founder of the U.D.F. and a member of the "colored" community (the official term for South Africans of mixed race...
Tina Turner's first role since the Acid Queen in Tommy shouldn't frighten anyone away. As Auntie Entity, the self-styled empress of the "slimepit" Bartertown, she performs with a perfect pre-apocalyptic charm, which gives way only when she must express and contain the rage of a town whose people have only very recently lost everything they ever...
...there could also be serious danger in not retaliating. Experts note apprehensively that terrorist attacks, airplane hijackings in particular, tend to come in clusters. A new wave of unpunished terrorism could frighten Arab moderates enough to destroy all prospect of peace negotiations with Israel; that indeed may be the terrorists' aim. Moreover, American lives are already in peril: Brian Jenkins, a Rand Corp. expert, estimates that about a third of all terrorist attacks involve Americans, more than involve the citizens of any other country. Analysts have worried in the past about the U.S.'s acquiring a reputation among terrorists...
...else fails, the U.S. and its allies should press insistently to prevent any of the phantoms from testing a nuclear device. That is more than a cosmetic strategy. As the case of India showed in 1974, the brandishing of the ability to explode an atomic device can frighten other countries, in this case Pakistan, into trying to match the effort. Just as bad, such a demonstration might encourage admiring imitators...