Word: frighteners
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...bombers' object, though, is also to frighten: to scare Israelis, Palestinians and Washington into giving up the process of reconciliation begun four years ago. Security officials in Israel and the U.S. had been bracing for some kind of terrorist strike before Secretary of State Madeleine Albright embarked on her first Middle East mission this week. Security had been beefed up on Ben Yehuda Street, one of three popular public areas the Israelis had specifically suspected might be hit. Yet the suicide bombers demonstrated once again that they could strike at will, reopening the cycle of violence and punishment that...
...solution and, what's that there is no solution and, what's worse, that the decline in both civic responsiblity and its consequent unhappiness are inevitable parts of democarcy. Fear is, in my not-so-centrist opinion, typically the tool of conservatives, who use scare tactics to frighten voters into approving more radical legislation. (Consider constant hype over crime as one example: crime rates are lower now than they were at points during the 1910's, contrary to what we might think after listening to Rush, Newt...
...thinking, of worship of Mammon and nostalgia for Mao. Hong Kong poses no graver threat to the powers in Beijing than homegrown forces already at work; the embrace of individual enterprise has forever undermined the basic tenets of communism. The pace and uncertainty of this unique transition frighten as many Chinese as they embolden. Whatever the Chinese are on the way to becoming, they offer this counsel: Naixin. Patience. Xuyao shijian. It takes time...
...temporary safety in a nearby clump of trees. When the older brother climbed down to run to get help, though, the dogs attacked him. The driver of the school bus, which had just arrived with nearly 20 students aboard, honked her horn in a vain attempt to frighten the animals away. As a neighbor later told the Kansas City Star, "The dogs, they were all sitting around [the body]. It was like they were gloating...
...Notre Dame who has skirmished on occasion with the Vatican but whose theological and historical grasp few would question, believes that before the Vatican II reforms of the mid-1960s, his church had slipped into the lazy role of using heaven and hell as "stories meant to encourage and frighten." Catholicism's once vivid otherworldliness had devolved into a sort of rote board game, in which preoccupation with involved scenarios of the life to come became an excuse to measure out one's life in Hail Marys and First Fridays while ignoring real moral concerns. Not only did this baroque...