Word: frightens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Figuring that they could frighten the mutineers into submission with lots of noise, the British cut loose with a predawn barrage of blank charges over Colito barracks. As the sleepy mutineers ducked for cover, helicopters fluttered off the flight deck and dropped 60 combat-ready Royal Marine Commandos onto the rebel base...
...when the Transit Authority heard what "Terror" was about it was horrified. The play dealt brilliantly with a pair of hopped-up punks who terrorize a subway earful of early morning riders. For an hour the hoods tease, insult and frighten the passengers. Yet no one dares do anything to stop them. Finally, as one leather-jacketed jackal torments a father with a sleeping child, a young soldier rebels. "Leave those people alone," he cries, and suddenly there is a knife in the punk's hand. The other passengers simply watch as the hood closes in on the unarmed...
Dodd: He does not frighten me if that is his purpose with his menacing words addressed to me, and the implications. So I say to the Senator from Illinois, "Come on with your answer. I will be here...
Last week Berberian was in Warsaw, where there are no fish to frighten. Through nine adventuresome days at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, mocking smiles and catcalls were stillborn while Warsaw held fast to its reputation as the only city in the world where people really like contemporary music. Berberian sang Circles, a free and atonal composition by her husband, Luciano Berio, in which even punctuation marks in an E. E. Cummings poem have musical counterparts-an aspirate gasp, for example, indicating an exclamation point. Warsaw was delighted...
...this buffeting from all sides, Kennedy is pictured as both "Red-baiting" and "soft on Communism." He is criticized for not caring enough about his legislative proposals to fight for them, but when he does, he is accused of a "bold executive attempt to frighten Senators." He is at the same time a "radically liberal" politician whose "personal beliefs seem to indicate a deep-dyed conservatism...