frighten
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A reference point for the work is Maya Angelou’s poem “Life Doesn’t Frighten Me,” which is read by Kumagai’s daughter.
From New York Times • Mar. 12, 2020
And in Frighten America, players must draw scary rockets and throw them at each other.
From Slate • Jan. 30, 2019
A version of this article appears in print on February 25, 2014, on page A4 of the with the headline: Vigilantes, Once Welcome, Frighten Many in Mexico.
From New York Times • Feb. 25, 2014
A precocious misfit from his earliest days at Frighten Elementary School, Mike dreams of scaring children as another boy would strive himself for major-league stardom.
From Time • Jun. 13, 2013
Frighten you! why, not so difficult a matter either!
From Guy Rivers: A Tale of Georgia by Simms, William Gilmore
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