Word: frightener
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...Western Hemisphere (TIME, Feb. 16). Last week the terrible toll continued to climb as new victims were found-nearly 19,000 dead, 66,000 wounded, at least 1,000,000 homeless.* Amid the miasma of death, new clouds of dust rose from 800 smaller aftershocks that continued to frighten the country; nonetheless, Guatemalans cleared away rubble to make way for rebuilding. Optimists even talked about a revival of the lucrative tourist trade, which provides Guatemala with $85 million a year in foreign exchange...
...P.L.O. AS A PALESTINIAN SPOKESMAN. The P.L.O. hardly controls 10% of the Palestinian Arab community. It is the representative only of an international terrorist organization. Why should we give them semirecog-nition that will frighten to death all the moderate Arabs in the West Bank? Once [the moderate Arabs] realize there is even the theoretical possibility of handing over power to the P.L.O., they will go to the P.L.O. right away, instead of remaining a moderate, constructive element, as most of them are today. The Rabat Conference [which recognized the P.L.O. as the sole representative of the Palestinian people...
...everyone agrees that the industry is in far better shape than it was just ten months ago, when car inventories were high enough to supply buyers for 110 days at the prevailing sales rate (v. a 53-day inventory now) and to frighten the industry into a rebate plan to stimulate business. Just how long the upward pace will continue depends on the strength of the recovery, which so far appears to be maintaining most of its momentum. The Government's index of leading indicators-which portends economic trends-was off nine-tenths of a per cent in September...
...uses adjectives like solid, clean, responsible, fair, sensible, and, over and over, orderly to present his vision of the city's salvation. These are simple words, ones that everyone understands; they share none of the exotic quality of the words applied to the city's present state (mirage, rescue, frighten, panic), and they are grounded firmly in an individual human scale. New York words have a huge order of magnitude, connoting sweeping events. Non-New York words are home truths, individual virtues...
President Ford calls these and other predictions about what will happen in the event that New York defaults "the blatant attempt in some quarters to frighten the American people and their representatives in Congress." Ford didn't exactly allay the fears of New Yorkers when they came within hours of default two weeks ago. By delaying executive action and then rejecting the idea of any federal aid--either by the executive, through Congress or through the Federal Reserve Bank--Ford has looked not to the nation's concerns but, while facing a tough battle with Ronald Reagan, to the political...