Word: daunt
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Forbidding gray skies, cutting winds and 50-degree temperatures did little to daunt the enthusiasm of the scantily-clad women who turned out in record numbers to run in the fourth Bonne Bell race...
...skiers descending on Colorado, primarily because of the state's liberal corporate disclosure requirements. New energy companies, which are sprouting up in the gas-and oil-rich region like spring wild flowers, are attempting to turn oil leases into sizable fortunes. Their offering circulars detail risks that would daunt the faint of heart. Speculation also fits the local mood. Ever since gold-rush days, Colorado has been flush with get-rich-quick gambits, a mania seen in the uranium boom of the mid-1950s...