Word: scares
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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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...
...opposed the administration's plan to split his college into smaller schools. He was also a target because of his liberalism, aggressiveness and potential candidacy for the U.T. presidency. According to one professor, Erwin told Silber: "John, you are the most intelligent, articulate and persistent man around. You scare the hell out of the incompetents above...
...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...