Word: frightener
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Dodd: He does not frighten me if that is his purpose with his menacing words addressed to me, and the implications. So I say to the Senator from Illinois, "Come on with your answer. I will be here...
Last week Berberian was in Warsaw, where there are no fish to frighten. Through nine adventuresome days at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, mocking smiles and catcalls were stillborn while Warsaw held fast to its reputation as the only city in the world where people really like contemporary music. Berberian sang Circles, a free and atonal composition by her husband, Luciano Berio, in which even punctuation marks in an E. E. Cummings poem have musical counterparts-an aspirate gasp, for example, indicating an exclamation point. Warsaw was delighted...
...this buffeting from all sides, Kennedy is pictured as both "Red-baiting" and "soft on Communism." He is criticized for not caring enough about his legislative proposals to fight for them, but when he does, he is accused of a "bold executive attempt to frighten Senators." He is at the same time a "radically liberal" politician whose "personal beliefs seem to indicate a deep-dyed conservatism...
...Congresses, Khrushchev spoke with such apoplectic vehemence that at one point he groped for words and rhetorically begged the audience: "Help me out." But he didn't need much help. Angrily defending his destalinization drive against Peking's attacks, he demanded: "What do they want? To frighten our people, to bring back the days when a man went to his job and did not know whether he would see his wife and children again?" Dropping his voice to a dramatic whisper, Khrushchev said that letters to him from all over the country expressed gratitude for ending the Stalinist...
...social life of Cliveden and of Ward." In short, Britain may be in danger of abandoning Actress Mrs. Pat Campbell's celebrated axiom about Edwardian London: "You can do anything you please here, so long as you don't do it on the street and frighten the horses...