Word: frighteningly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...great tradition of Stalin andJoseph McCarthy when he says that writing a parodyis an act of terrorism," Dershowitz said. "I'mopposed to ... faculty members who use theirstatus as faculty members to terrorize studentsand to frighten them away from exercising theirfree speech...
...four, she returned to Hope and married Roger Clinton, a Buick dealer who moved the family to Hot Springs. Bill's stepfather was an alcoholic who sometimes beat Virginia and once fired a gun at her in their living room (she insists to this day he intended only to frighten, not to injure, her). Virginia and Roger divorced but quickly remarried; as a gesture to help keep the family together, Bill, then 15, had his name legally changed to Clinton...
...once flourishing nuclear programs; France, Germany and Argentina became much more discriminating in the kind of nuclear technology they would approve for sale and to whom. But all this progress could be easily reversed. The thought of North Korea's Stalinist regime brandishing atom bombs, for instance, could easily frighten Japan and South Korea into developing their own nukes. It would be a terrible irony if the early 21st century revived a dread that the end of the cold war in the 20th had seemed to put to rest: the fear that almost any local or regional conflict could...
...paper. Signs in gigantic bold face lettering admonish students who would have the audacity to ask about borrowing a program: "We do not have software to lend you!", "The software library is not a lending library!" and "There is nothing there for you!" These scare tactics are enough to frighten off the most enthusiastic would-be user...
...helped establish "crisis pregnancy" centers around the country that appear to offer abortion. But women who go to such places are confronted instead with films and lectures intended to frighten them away from having an abortion. Some members of Congress say the operators of such places may be guilty of fraud. What do you think...