Word: frightens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...political activities of Henry Wallace frighten the Democratic bosses, delight the Republicans, and frequently puzzle both. To Author Dwight Macdonald they are the natural antics of a split persornality who has gained a confused following by making a cult of confusion. Macdonald's subtitle is The Man and the Myth, and of the two he finds the myth more interesting and more important...
...present a list of the new cabinet ministers (twelve Communists, two Socialists and eight miscellaneous "safe" men). Ninety minutes later, the Czech radio triumphantly announced that the President had accepted the new cabinet. The President's office promptly denied this. The fake radio news was enough to frighten Socialist Leader Bohumil Lausman, a middle-of-the-roader, into resigning. Loudspeaker trucks proclaimed that his pro-Communist rival Zdenek Fierlinger had resumed leadership of the Socialist Party. This meant that the Communists could now control a legal majority in Parliament. But Benes still held...
Mostly, the investments were made years ago. Since the war new private capital has fought shy of Latin America. By putting up bars to payment of interest and principal, Latinos have done much to frighten new private U.S. capital away.† Last month Brazil reimposed a 5% tax on exported profits, and Argentina allows no dollars to leave unless matched by newly invested dollars. In every republic except Venezuela remittances are subject to costly exchange-control delays. In Socialist-run Venezuela, which currently offers the best Latin American climate for new private enterprise, U.S. oil companies plan to invest...
Despite the manifold dangers he describes, Wittenberg emphasizes that they should hot frighten any newsman into doing less than his job. And he repeats what every good reporter knows: "The [provable] truth [in the U.S.] is ... an absolute defense to a civil action for libel...
Everything is reduced except "Harvey Harvard," a monstrous sized albino rabbit whose extraordinary dimensions frighten all but the hardiest "pupil" who might feel inclined toward biological experiments and reflex testing...