Word: frightens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Since the commission announced its probe last Oct. 27, A.T. & T. stock has plunged from 66⅞ to last week's 1966 low of 52⅛, closed the week at 54. The sellers have been mostly big institutions, but the company fears that the investigation could begin to frighten off small investors as well. Already the paper loss on the stock has grown to a staggering $6.82 billion, more than double the gross national product of Ireland, and has cost each 100-share stockholder $1,288. This has been a primary factor in the recent drop in the stock...
...aware," said Father Laurel at Barcelona's Monastery of Sarriá, "that to follow the principles of the Gospel and of the Vatican Council to their utmost meaning in our country, one may come under the definition of 'unlawfulness.' But this does not frighten us. Jesus Christ was the first to go against the law-against the law of the Caesars, of the Jews and of occupying powers...
...seems intent on undercutting the distinctions between normalcy and abnormality. The unsettling results seem to totter between a sinister vision and a deceptive festivity. Such ambivalent reactions suit Dubuffet fine. He long ago stated his own criterion: "Art should always make us laugh a little and frighten us a little, but never bore...
...move his party in from the left, blur distinctions between the parties on a range of issues, and, at the same time, demonstrate that Labour can, after all, govern with prudence and responsibility. Even the Tories have ceased to raise the spectre of socialism's red ruin to frighten the electorate...
Physicist and Amateur Historian Harvey Einbinder declared in 1963 that it was just a gory story to frighten voters with, an atrocity invented by the British to justify their conquest of Bengal. The British bristled, and this brief but masterly report by a correspondent for the London Daily Mail assures any doubters that the atrocity actually occurred. It occurred, in fact, at the anticlimax of a comedy of horrors scarcely paralleled in British history...