Word: frightener
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Although he was the only journalist at Wounded Knee formally charged with conspiracy to incite riot, Oliphant volunteered that "in a broader context" he had been arrested to "frighten away others or steer them away" from first-person coverage of the siege of the South Dakota town...
...prepared for the ICCS, killing one workman and injuring three others. "We really were not in great danger," said one of the Canadians, "because the Communists knew every inch of this ground. If they had wanted to hit us, they could have. I think they were simply trying to frighten us away...
...alternative could be for Dayan to join forces with religious and right-wing elements; Dayan believes that he can take enough votes away from Labor to frighten the party leaders into giving...
...dominant dewy-eyed side of Deck is at the heart of the book, and the glorification of such characters never ceases to frighten me -- particularly when someone like McMurtry portrays him as charming and attractive. If we are meant to recognize the ridiculousness of the existence of such a figure in the modern world, McMurtry's techniques do not convey it. I respect McMurtry's desire not to remove himself from the grounds of his inspiration, and to continually deal with the settings and people he really cares about. But his work, for all its regional color, only dramatizes...
...that he will not ask any Socialist to form a government. "No one," he has said, "should count on me to renounce everything in which I believe." Legally, he could dissolve the National Assembly and call for new elections. That was a tactic employed by DeGaulle in 1968 to frighten voters into supporting him; unfortunately, French voters have a habit of reinforcing their views in such second elections, which might mean an even larger leftist majority in the next Assembly...