Word: spooked
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...given how helpful he's being, we're slowly prepared to concede that Mr. Truong is not a spook after all. As it turns out, he's not even a Party member. He's just an anxious guy with unfortunate hair. He also doesn't know how to work a manual clutch-though he never admits to it. Our Vietnamese colleague Mai, tired after six days on the road, asks him to ride her Minsk while she takes the jeep. The going is particularly mountainous, and heading uphill Mr. Truong keeps getting stuck between gears. We pass him several times...
...government's scramble to atone for its early stonewalling managed to spook the public even more. In villages on the outskirts of Beijing, terrified citizens have set up blockades to bar outsiders from entering. The capital is buzzing with paranoid rumors, for instance that the government is on the verge of closing all public places. "I know this is probably a rumor," says Yu Jun, 32, as he stocked up on supplies at a grocery store. "But right now I'd rather believe rumors than what the government tells...
...unleash chemical or biological weapons. In the Kuwaiti desert, Western camera crews that taped 3rd Infantry Division troops storming a mock Iraqi street were being co-opted by military media strategists, who privately say street fighting forms no part of the war plan. The exercises were designed to spook Baghdad...
...begins a "two-a-day" mentalist vaudeville act with Molly, a virginal looker with a thing for daddy. Never satisfied, Stanton tricks up a house and puts on a minister's outfit, turning himself into a successful "spiritualist." Soon he meets a wealthy industrialist who's "overboard on the spook dodge. He's living on dream street," and willing shell out big bucks to square his conscience with a dead girl. But Stan's downfall comes when he meets Lilith, a comely shrink who's too smart for his cons. Taking him as a lover, she makes him paint...
Further on, he documents a similar literary spook: subconsciously or not, he claims, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and others lifted their style in certain passages from Mark Twain...