Word: frightening
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...book was eventually published by Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., and was released as a Knopf Vintage trade paperback. But the publication of the book almost did not happen. The ease with which N.O.W. managed to intimidate Simon & Schuster should frighten those who value freedom of expression...
...know that humanity's "errors" -- our bigotry or anger or lust or selfishness or greed -- will go on churning out the accursed creatures. Like our forebears, we have got in the habit of monsters. If we are to escape their terror, we must not distort their significance. If they frighten us, we must remember why. Otherwise, monstrum and remonstrance fade from memory, and we gain not even the awful lesson about the darkness that we must each live with and subdue...
...ISSUE with the administration's use of official police photographers to identify and intimidate students. During the protest, Harvard police officers armed with still and video cameras repeatedly swept through the crowd. One snapped so many pictures of the same students that it was clear his intent was to frighten rather than simply identify them. Those students who gathered to watch or report on the protest--hardly a violation of University rules--were photographed just like everyone else...
Riggs had underestimated just how murderous America's urban battlegrounds could be: "I just got back from where they were firing missiles at my head," he said on his return to Detroit's mean streets, where gunfire is all too common. "Those bullets aren't going to frighten me now." A few hours after he died, a letter from Riggs arrived, dated Feb. 22. "I have no intentions on becoming one of this war's casualties," he wrote. But he was talking about the wrong...
...spate of scholarly studies has demonstrated that the offenses to quality of ) life that police now routinely overlook -- such things as loud radios, graffiti and aggressive panhandling -- create an atmosphere in which more serious crime is likely to occur. Those petty disturbances are the ones that trouble and frighten ordinary citizens the most. In turn, their fear acts like an acid to disintegrate neighborhood ties. It leads citizens to shun the streets and abdicate responsibility for conditions outside their doors. That invites a dismal cycle of deteriorating conditions, more fear -- and more crime...