Word: frightens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ghosts to Frighten. How quickly Davy did, and how painfully Sam Johnson had to struggle for his bread, is the story Margaret Barton undertakes to tell. The book is one more in the succession of works on Johnson and his circle, many of them no doubt stimulated by Lieut. Colonel Ralph Isham's astonishingly successful search for missing Johnson and Boswell manuscripts since World War I (TIME, Nov. 29). Miss Barton's book is highly readable biography in its own right and one of those solid English performances as thick and tasty as an English pudding...
While most soil men have never taken Malthus' theory too literally, it was a useful tool to frighten farmers into soil conservation. For this reason, those of us who are crusading for conservation believe that your analysis of William Vogt's theories, while essentially sound and correct, will be a damaging blow. Farmers will now sleep late, plow up and down the hill. Most of them have to be frightened into action, and now our bogie man is dead by the hand of TIME...
Montgomery tries hard to give the impression that Saxon is this formidable character, but he is boxed in by a bunch of wooden actors and actresses, situations that are generally picayune, and dialogue that is crumby. So, in spite of Montgomery, Saxon fails to frighten anybody, and his machinations have the air of pattiness...
...your Science section to "Science Fiction." The cause of my disillusionment is your rebroadcast of the theory of Mr. Hugh Auchincloss ("Upset the World") Brown in TIME, Sept. 13. The location of the piece under "Science" and the scare headline put you in the position of trying to frighten a somewhat stupid child by telling him ghost stories . . . I enclose a 1? stamp and I suggest that you use it to start a fund to be used to buy Brown a 10? gyroscope...
...President, however, said he recognized that the present international situation is not without its aspects "sufficiently grim to frighten many...