Word: frightener
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...practices of McCarthyism were Truman's practices in cruder hands, just as the language of McCarthyism was Truman's language in less well-meaning voices." Charles Mee's recent Meeting at Potsdam portrays a vulpine Truman cynically deciding to drop the atom bomb on Hiroshima to frighten the Soviets rather than to vanquish an already prostrate enemy...
...investigation of why New York's giant banks are refusing to underwrite new issues of city bonds, and New York Congressmen are going to start such a probe. Though the banks have reasons-the city's habit of borrowing against future revenues to pay current bills would frighten any creditor-they can hardly relish the prospect of scrutiny by unfriendly liberal Democrats. Municipal unions are trying to get their members to withdraw deposits from First National City Bank, which to them symbolizes the financial community, as a means of putting pressure on that institution to make more credit...
...columnist in the Buenos Aires daily La Opinión observed: "The extreme positions and the truculent folklore of the far left serve more to attract young people who are out to frighten their aunts than to win big popular majorities." The losers saw it differently and charged the government with vote buying. José López Rega, Mrs. Perón's private secretary and Social Welfare Minister, did visit the province shortly before the election to distribute nearly $5 million worth of housing subsidies...
Thieu's response was swift and characteristic. He had a handful of lesser-known dissidents arrested, including two who had been at the tea meeting, as well as a number of journalists and politicians who tend to support Ky. The arrests were clearly meant to frighten the bigger fish in the opposition and demonstrate that Thieu not only was still in power but also intended to remain there...
...Administration and many business leaders worry that a legislative assault on the Arab blacklist might frighten off badly needed foreign capital and provoke diplomatic and economic reprisals by Arab countries. One alternative favored by the White House: the creation of a special office to monitor and supervise all foreign investments in the U.S. Nevertheless, with active encouragement from the B'nai B'rith and other groups that make up the so-called Jewish lobby, a retaliatory mood seems to be growing in Congress: no fewer than 26 Senators lined up to sponsor a resolution calling on the Administration...