Word: frightening
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...realism; this is economic rubbish." Even socialist leaders such as Asoka Mehta complain that for ten years India has been plagued by socialist slogans, "and what have we got? Nothing." Seemingly, the only purpose the slogans and all the patronizing remarks about "the private sector" have served is to frighten away foreign investors...
...sneak in through the West entrance and thus do not frighten undergraduates and their dates. This is a good thing because I would assume undergraduates still shudder at the prospect of becoming suburbanites involved in such pastimes as raising children and sitting in cheap seats at the Stadium. Bayley F. Mason...
...Khrushchev were to compare his position today with that of a year ago, he must conclude that the best way to deal with the West is to frighten," Henry A. Kissinger '50, associate director of the Center for International Affairs, told a Ford Hall Forum audience last night in a speech assessing the United States' position in world affairs...
With a great number of younger Mississippians, a number that would frighten our embittered elders, I deplore the prejudice and ugliness of Mississippi politics as displayed in the recent primary elections. When we who love our state have a more powerful voice, we will be an effective instrument for lifting Mississippi from the mire of such as this...
...then a rifle crack broke the stillness of the hills, but the Communist insurgents were finding the simpler weapons of rumor, exaggeration and bluff sufficient to keep their campaign going. Operating in little bands of 5 to 25 men, they sent heralds ahead to frighten villages with stories of Communist hordes about to descend, of real or imaginary atrocities committed near by, of the fall of a government fort. Sometimes they rowed back and forth across a river to give the impression of large numbers. Sometimes they herded villages of people before them to make an attack seem bigger...