Word: frighteningly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...senior aide put it, until the cease-fire dilemma resolved itself one way or the other. A former ambassador to France, Soames has a reputation for a keen political sensitivity, an ability to get things done and a certain measure of arrogance. Predicts a friend: "He will frighten the life out of whites or blacks who dare disobey his orders...
...dumping Barre will not be easy. Many foreign officials and businessmen view Barre as a symbol of the rigor and discipline France needs. Bankers fear that Barre's departure would diminish confidence in the French economy, frighten capital investors and cause the franc (which has held steady against the West German mark for more than a year) to tumble. In a last-ditch defense of his policies, Barre sounded an emphatic warning against false expectations. "You can replace me, but don't have any illusions," he told a meeting of Giscard's supporters among the members...
...many persons still have reason to prevent the whole truth from surfacing. But Powers has compiled an impressively documented and reasonably well-presented litany of power and its abuses; his book--a most thorough work but by no means the last word on the subject, will provoke, frighten and outrage even those already jaded by the sleaziness and corruption of Watergate. Richard Helms and the old boys at the CIA would have been much happier it Thomas Powers and others like him never bothered to look inside their murky closed. It may not be pleasant, but it is important...
...pretty hard to fail the reading test. At worst it can frighten you into taking the Harvard Reading Course. The writing test is new, surely prompted by Time magazine cover stories like "Why Johnny Can't Write." Until we know what this thing is about, you might want to take it halfway seriously...
...Whether it was a conspiracy to frighten or a conspiracy to kill, it was badly botched," he said. The judge also made the point that the testimony of the three principal prosecution witnesses was "tainted" by the huge sums of money that each had received for telling his story to the British press. Bessell admitted on the stand that his contract for serialization of portions of a book he is writing called for twice as much ($100,000) if Thorpe were convicted. By the judge's reckoning, Scott was paid $31,000 by newspaper and television companies, and Newton...