Word: frightening
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...joining the Fly is no easy task either, since its non-alumni membership runs to about 60 undergraduates and five grad school students. If those odds don't frighten you the club's initiation fee (over $100) and monthly dues (over $25) might scare...
...world is always jammed with people, all of whom walk around purposefully, looking for bargains and talking to one another. The vast space is easy to move through, and doesn't weight them down. Somehow they have gotten a grip on the place, and it doesn't frighten them to shop there. Everything there works as the customers expect it to work, and that a place can be so big and manageable at the same time seems to make people happy. I tell people that it's sort of a monument to the human spirit--but furtively, because...
...looking across a sea of red flags at a mass rally of 200,000 Communists in the Piazza of St. John Lateran, Berlinguer declared, "The political line of the Italian Communist Party promises the only valid democratic alternative to reactivate Italy. The gains of the Communist Party can only frighten the corrupt and the overbearing. They cannot frighten honest citizens...
...investigation of why New York's giant banks are refusing to underwrite new issues of city bonds, and New York Congressmen are going to start such a probe. Though the banks have reasons-the city's habit of borrowing against future revenues to pay current bills would frighten any creditor-they can hardly relish the prospect of scrutiny by unfriendly liberal Democrats. Municipal unions are trying to get their members to withdraw deposits from First National City Bank, which to them symbolizes the financial community, as a means of putting pressure on that institution to make more credit...
Ronald Burns, chairman of HEOC, said that by publishing the statement. Harvard was attempting to frighten employees away from supporting the unionizing drive...