Word: frightener
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...frighten their victims into silence, the teachers allegedly cut off the ears of rabbits and other small animals in front of the children, warning the youngsters that the same fate could befall them. Said Los Angeles District Attorney Robert Philibosian: "The children were extremely reluctant to tell anyone about [the sexual abuse]." The school never had trouble obtaining the required state or local licenses, although authorities now believe the child abuse began at least ten years ago. It was not until last September, when a mother told local police that her two-year-old child had been molested, that...
...strategy of the Russians is to empty the country, not to control it," Mathey said. "You can travel for miles without seeing anyone. They put mines everywhere just to frighten the people...
Such talk may be intended only to frighten the Sandinistas into behaving in a more democratic fashion. If so, then that campaign may have begun to pay off. Nicaragua has taken a number of conciliatory steps in recent weeks, perhaps because of U.S. pressure and almost certainly in response to warnings from West European leaders that were conveyed to Nicaragua's Interior Minister Tomas Borge during his October tour of the continent. The Europeans bluntly told Borge that they might no longer provide financial and diplomatic support for the regime if it did not moderate its increasingly totalitarian ways...
...exactly what that "appropriate response" might be, Washington has been rife with speculation that the Soviets might station submarines with nuclear missiles off the U.S. coasts and break off the INF talks. Still, key White House officials, perhaps wishfully, saw Andropov's speech more as an attempt to frighten European populations about the planned U.S. deployment than as an outright rejection of the Reagan proposals. Despite the Soviets' latest psychological offensive, however, the prevailing view among Western Europe's leaders was that the debate over missiles in Europe has run its course and that deployment will proceed...
...stand total withdrawal of American corporate influence, both the United States and Harvard should divest "Morally. I support divestiture completely," says Menell "It's not really a practical question, but the South African government does care what its American ally thinks of it. "Fox also argues that divestiture might "frighten" the whites into believing that changing to apartheid will no longer be tolerated by the world community. He adds that Harvard's divestiture would have little or no effect, but that it would constitute a moral statement that should be made...