Word: frightener
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...Legislative changes that will give the Federal Government better control of all chemicals that affect man's environment. The call for tighter regulation may frighten chemical companies, but it does not support the more extravagant claims of their outspoken critics-those who believe that control of insects and other pests should be left to the "balance of nature." Nature must be kept out of balance, the report recognizes, if man is to survive in his present numbers...
Harvard apparently is still uneasy about admitting creative artists to its community; the dramatic statement of purpose in the Le Corbusier building almost seems to frighten it. The VAC and the men who may instill it with life are treated as dangerous intruders in the sacred halls of the Academy. The lack of definite plans for future courses, and even the present classes, are indicative of this uncertainty. Before any meaningful use can be made of the center, the University must carefully evaluate its own aims, and clearly determine where the creative artist stands in relation to those aims...
...side up." Birmingham had already been upset-and all but overturned. Downtown mer chants, plagued for more than a year by a Negro boycott that was 90% effective, saw their profits plunging even more because of the demonstrations. Birmingham's racist reputation had long been bad enough to frighten away potential industry; rioting by King's forces would further scar the city's image. And, despite the headline-hogging prominence of such racists as Bull Connor and Governor Wallace, there were a significant number of moderates in Birmingham who wanted peace, simply because they believed the Negro...
...money to live comfortably. His most important case concerns an American Negro, Robert F. Williams, who is wanted for kidnapping in this country and has exiled himself in Cuba. In fact, at the rally he had speculated that his appearance in Washington might reflect the Committee's effort "to frighten integrationists who are more radical than Martin Luther King...
...estimated 200 German scientists and technicians, many of whom first learned their skills making V2s for Adolf Hitler. Ever since the Germans helped Nasser test-fire his first successful rockets last July, Israeli intelligence chiefs have been conducting a deadly underground war to force-or frighten-the German scientists away from the project...