Word: scared
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purpose was not to "scare hell out of the customers," as you suggest. I pointed out that I believe the U.S. is technologically superior to the Soviet Union today. I also pointed out that the U.S. does have forces of strategic sufficiency today. My concern is that there is a real danger that we will not be in such a position by 1975 or 1980 if present trends continue...
...grabbed the .30-30 Winchester that I had brought along, unlatched the door and peered out. A huge black bear was standing there upright-he must have been six feet tall and weighed 500 lbs.-pounding on the overhang with his front paws. I banged on a pot to scare him away. Nothing doing...
...blast into the night air with the rifle, but it didn't bother him a bit. I yelled, 'Go away, bear! Beat it! Scat!' I learned that 'scat' does not scare away bears. At last he moved away, so damned casually, following a moose trail into the woods." When the bear returned next evening to pound again on the cabin wall, Birnbaum heeded his How to Stay Alive in the Woods handbook, which advised speaking softly instead of shouting at wild creatures. He opened the door and pleaded: "Please go away, bear." The animal ambled...
Like many Americans, Barkley is still emphatically on the side of law and order. But, he says, "this is the kind of harassment that the police are obviously stupid in doing. It isn't enough to scare, just enough to make you mad and antagonistic that it happens to the kids...
...once all-male mode of transport, the freight car. A petty thief, lacking a gun for a sudden job, knew that corruption was so rampant that he could borrow the needed weapon from a cop on patrol. At farm foreclosure sales, friends would gather, bid 10? for every item, scare others out of bidding more, then give everything back to the farmer. And in his mother's hotel, Terkel, then in his teens, sensed that the Depression had set in for keeps when he noticed the increased wear on the cards and checkerboards available to guests sitting around...