The citations in the passage above has developed the main idea that the creation of the bicycle has brought a lot of changes, one of it is the new clothing options for competing women. The excerpt is from the story “Wheels of Change: How Women Rode the Bicycle to Freedom’, written by Sue Macy.
Answer:
escape
Explanation:
I think it's this because the text says "until he saw fat Joe walk in through the rear door, then his courage began to ooze." meaning that his confidence left when he saw fat Joe walk through that door.
