They race every Sunday in frightening high-banked "superspeedways," for crowds often reaching 200,000, and every year dozens of the top drivers earn well over a million dollars apiece from purses and the hawking of "collectibles".
Unfortunately, one of the troubles of contemporary Habdom, I've decided, is that where in decades past the old Forum, with all its ghosts, created a tense, demanding atmosphere, the new Bell Center creates one of almost frightening high-definition hysteria, as hard for the home-town boys to live up to as it is intimidating to the visitors.
For investors who find high-tech stock valuations frightening, high-yield debt still represents a reasonable alternative.
They were rallies that would not have happened without the fervor of the students: teenage survivors of last month's massacre in Parkland, Fla., frightened high schoolers in the Midwest, unnerved university students in the Northeast.
What better way to upgrade population quality than to frighten "high-quality" women into marrying and having a child for the good of the nation?
The bear market in stocks will force foundations to cut back on grants as their endowment portfolios shrink, and donations from frightened high-net-worth individuals will fall, too.
This "frightening high-threat pathogen will exploit these community and political fault lines and not respect borders, whether provincial or international".
And his long collaboration with Roald Dahl showed that he can do nastiness too: the horrible Twits, the grumpy grandmas and beastly aunts, the frightening Grand High Witch with her evil drool, the gloating red-tongued wolf of Revolting Rhymes.
