Word: frightener
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...said, 'but the roots of sin are there.'" Robert S. Strauss, the Democrats' party chairman, compared the party not to a louse but to a gorilla, but he evidently had only the mildest, friendliest, least threatening kind of gorilla in mind--after all, the party did not want to frighten any potential voters away...
...manages to present them with continuity. The bits themselves, carefully edited, represent the best of Lenny Bruce and capture his change in mood and brand of humor--as arrests persisted, Lenny's character became increasingly raffish, his voice increasingly strident and self-righteous, until he was trying to frighten his audience more than amuse...
Richard III is like those horror stories that children tell to frighten each other. It is not one of Shakespeare's great plays; yet it has the power to grip an audience. Apparently, mankind's appetite for a total monster is insatiable...
...well equipped is Ford mentally and emotionally for the presidency? He has few qualms. Insisting he did not wish or expect to be President, he said last spring: "I see no reason why I shouldn't be a good President. It doesn't frighten me at all. I feel prepared, and I know the policies I believe in would be sound." Nonetheless, some people worry that Ford's plodding, amiable ways and his eagerness for consensus may render him less than decisive in a national crisis. His openness could prove to be a liability in the White House, where nations...
...have anything that would frighten any Harvard man in any event," Yale Coach Bob Giegengack said yesterday...