Word: frightens
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...violence did not frighten the voters away from the polls; 80% of the qualified electorate cast ballots. Nor did voters take seriously President Ferdinand Marcos' claims that Liberal-aided Communist insurgents were about to overthrow the government. In a stinging personal defeat for Marcos and a severe setback for his ruling Nacionalista Party, the voters gave the underdog Liberals six of the eight contested Senate seats-the only national offices at stake -as well as the Manila mayoralty. Marcos' party did considerably better in some 15,000 local and provincial races, but many of them were uncontested...
...charged with knifing another inmate. Jackson, who claims never to have employed violence except in self-defense, wirtes in Soledad Brother that the charge was just one in a number of attempts to undermine his growing influence with other cons. "This is all a well-thought out effort to frighten me...I guess they want to show me and those around me here how powerless I am in their hands." However, the ploy, Jackson asserts, is not going to work...
...waves run frighten'd to the shores...
...Fleming Street. Lady Fleming, 62, is a noted bacteriologist in her own right and a World War II heroine of the Greek resistance. Thus when the police were tipped off that she was involved in a plot to spring their most closely guarded prisoner, they tried to frighten her out of the idea. She was picked up and questioned for 14 hours about a party she had reportedly given last year for underground dissidents. Then she was released...
...independence organizations, as well as journalists, teachers and even some politicians. This is not to say that they suspected all these people of being members of the FLQ but it was meant to merely paralyze the movement, to disorganize and behead the movement. Furthermore the government was hoping to frighten the people away from the FLQ. This is what the government referred to as "I' erosion de la volonte populaire...