Word: frightener
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...Jerusalem, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin scoffed at the predictable militancy: "No jihad is going to frighten us." As if to underscore the point, late last week Israeli warplanes strafed Palestinian bases in southern Lebanon, the first cross-border attacks this year...
Touring underground defense facilities and meeting generals who "had the authority to push the red button and hit Moscow" has made a deep impression on Hallice. As he says, "Some of the things I've seen would frighten...
...highest-paid performer in Hollywood, and all at once, everybody seemed to be doing imitations. "I became suddenly a star seen in the third person, even to myself," she said. "It didn't frighten me. I got fun out of being a legend and an institution." During World War II, her name was on every soldier's lips, and inflatable chest life preservers were known as Mae Wests...
...early September, a U.S. District Court supported the constitutionality of a new state law that requires women who seek abortions to sign consent forms at least 24 hours in advance. Contending that the purpose of the form was to castigate women and frighten them away from abortion, pro-abortion advocates recently succeeded in delaying the effective date of the law, pending an early October appeal...
...Republican representatives booed noisily. The next day, Thomas Hanahan, a Democrat from rural McHenry, who once described feminists as "braless, brainless broads," accused ERA supporters of attempting to bribe waffling legislators with offers of big campaign contributions; he provided no evidence. Proponents accused him, in turn, of trying to frighten fence sitters into opposing the amendment...