Word: frightener
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...overlook constitutional niceties. She is also in continuing physical danger; one spectator shakedown in her courtroom recently produced 22 weapons, ranging from knives to scissors to an 18-in. dog chain. Armed with round-the-clock bodyguards, however, the judge goes serenely on her way. "If they can frighten the courts," she says, "they will just take over. I don't intend to be frightened...
...Questura security cops found themselves choking on crooks' exhaust fumes in their put-putting Fiats. But now, basta, banditti! In its own garage on the Via Nazionale sits a shiny black Ferrari with bulletproof windshield, a radio always tuned to headquarters, and enough notches in its tailpipe to frighten the Mafia. Last week it roared out to overhaul a crook in a Jaguar fleeing Rome with $160,000 worth of paintings. Last month it ran Luciano D'Antoni, "king of the jailbreak," into a ditch and back to jail. Ace Police Driver Armando Spatafora has a chestful...
...that day, George Whitmore, 19, a myopic, pock-marked Negro drifter with an IQ of 60, walked up to a Brooklyn cop in an area where a nurse had barely managed to frighten off a rapist the night before. "What was all the shooting about last night?" asked Whitmore carelessly. For days afterward, he was answering, not asking questions...
...same time the U.S. does not want any proliferation of nuclear weapons. In particular, the U.S. would like to satisfy German ambitions for a share in nuclear armaments, but somehow without in fact permitting the Germans actually to have any-since that would endanger dealings with Moscow and frighten Germany's neighbors...
...remember very sharply that I didn't want to go immediately back into McComb because my shirt was very bloody and I figured that if we went back in we would probably frighten everybody," he recalls. So, Moses washed up before heading back to McComb. He later required eight stitches to close his head wound...