Word: frightens
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Outside the street is deserted. I'm not upset anymore, the computer doesn't frighten...
Frazier approaches his subjects like a man who does not want to move too fast and frighten them away. In the title story, he decides to find out a little something about Ponce Cruse Evans, the woman who writes the syndicated column "Hints from Heloise." This involves, for some reason, driving from Chicago to San Antonio, where Evans lives. "In Muskogee, Oklahoma," Frazier confides, "I saw a Taco Hut, a Taco Bell, and a Taco Tico." Then he has to find a suitable motel ("I wanted a locally owned one") and assess his impressions so far: "I had not been...
...hopes soared. Maybe that was why Cappi hadn't called me. She was still beautiful, still svelte, still smelled like rasberry tootsie pops and Sprite, still loved me, and didn't want to frighten me in the way that we were frightening Dave. I admired her intelligence. How clever, I thought, to pretend she was somebody that Dave knew, to let Dave suffer insults, let Dave wonder what monstrosity was lurking at the other end of the line to swallow him up in its beasty claws. Dave could fret, Dave could drive, and Dave would step aside when Cappi threw...
...billion and felt confident he could get it after a 9-to-0 Supreme Court decision that week referred the legal war back into Texas courts. Many analysts currently believe Pennzoil will be lucky to get $1 billion years from now. Liedtke insists that "Texaco can't frighten anyone into settling by declaring bankruptcy. We will win ultimately...
...real borders are not the ones that divide countries, but the ones that divide people. Your hard-liners do not want international tensions to diminish. They do not want glasnost and freedom to develop in the U.S.S.R. because they need an unfree Soviet Union as a bogeyman to frighten their voters and to prevent more talented, democratic and tolerant people from gaining control of the country's destiny...