Word: frightener
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...York Financial Expert Felix Rohatyn, who had helped save his city from bankruptcy, insisted that " 'drop dead' in draft form is no better than 'drop dead' in final form." Said Mayor Young of the draft: "It scares the hell out of me and should frighten every mayor...
...torn about being frank" regarding these problem, she adds. "I don't want to frighten people away. We need socioeconomic diversity at the high school, and I hate to see all the gain we have made there undermined by funding problems...
...ordinance regulating video arcades, I read with interest your story "Games That Play People." You correctly note that communities with troublemaking youngsters had problems before the arcades opened. However, you overlook the fact that these hangouts often act as magnets, attracting young people who harass or frighten the clientele of surrounding businesses. Expert testimony before the Buffalo Common Council indicates a correlation between arcades and an increase in juvenile crime. Game centers can be well run. More frequently they become headaches for parents, neighborhood business people and community residents...
...librarians to catalogue archives. To someone who criticized such largesse for intellectuals, Hopkins answered: "Hell, they've got to eat just like other people." He even paid researchers to study the history of the safety pin and hired 100 Washington workers to patrol the streets with balloons to frighten starlings away from public buildings. Soon the language of politics acquired a new word: boondoggle...
Made edgy by the conversation, Mrs. Khalil emphasizes that the aim of her society is to teach the children to love the beautiful things in the old country, and not to frighten them. "You don't want to start striking out right and left." She waves right and left with her arms; her English rolls in a heavy swell. "You want to make distinctions. A good Jew from a bad Jew. A good Arab from a bad. Also you want to show that life is not all hardship. There is joy here...