Word: frightens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well as fundamental domestic issues-much further in the direction that they have to be moved than any other candidate. Somehow, he can make the same statements and wage the same fights as other liberal Democrats-but his style and manner don't seem to frighten people who may not agree with...
South Vietnamese President Nguyen Van Thieu's suggestion that it was "only a matter of time" before ARVN troops would drive north of the DMZ was designed to frighten Hanoi into keeping its reserve troops in place. But Hanoi's warning that such a thrust would bring China into the war seems to have ended threats of an invasion of North Viet Nam-a contingency that the U.S. would endorse only if the Lam Son forces were near annihilation...
...that disrupt the business-as-usual fabric of American life, destroy the university unless it serves the people, protect and expand the drug culture." Nothing in the program proved that the defendants were conspiring to destroy federal property or incite a riot, but these four points might very well frighten the jury...
...night, and at other teach-ins across the country on other nights, the events would be duplicated. Students would be excited, but they would be given nothing to do. Yes, President Nixon would see that the campuses were not silent; but the sounds of empty words at teach-ins frighten him no more than do the thud and tinkle of shattered shopfront windows. Action alone impresses him-Eactionalized and paranoid, the Left has been unable to coordinate meaningful action. Marches and teach-ins and trashing readily attract participants; but they are not very meaningful. Only political organizing, performed diligently...
Andover's own experience is enough to frighten the striped tie off the many prep school alumni who have confidently sent off their sons and their generous checks to their old schools for generations...