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Word: afraid (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...move to a nearby tribal reserve. Rekayi, whose full name means "Let Tangwena Be," refused to go. The new land, he said, is considered sacred by his tribe and serves as the burial ground for at least three of its chiefs. As a result, some of his people were afraid to live there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Rhodesia: Slum Clearance, Salisbury-Style | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...Institute is currently funding around 50 marijuana research projects, but only a few of them involve experimentation with human beings. Social Psychiatrist Joel Hochman of the U.C.L.A. Neuropsychiatric Institute goes so far as to charge that "the Government is giving legitimate researchers such a hassle because they are afraid our work will show no serious side effects, and if there are no serious side effects then there is no rationale for keeping the use of marijuana illegal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Pop Drugs: The High as a Way of Life | 9/26/1969 | See Source »

...senior tutors don't want us to be removed." he said, "because they're afraid their doorbells will be ringing all night...

Author: By Michael E. Kinsley, | Title: The Vagabond Night Watch | 9/22/1969 | See Source »

...petty quibbles of contemporary Medievalists-at times indeed, approaching the ludicrous-that, smile as we may at its follies, or denounce its barbaries, the truly monumental achievements of the Middle Ages have become too vast for us to cope with, or even understand; we are too small, and too afraid." Let me offer this as an ideal opening sentence on the Middle Ages. And now, you see, having dazzled me, having won me by your personal, involved, independently-minded assertion, your only job is to keep me awake. When I sleep I give...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Or, Get Facts, 'Any Facts' | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

...Cliffie to tell you what type of girl goes to her school. and she will back away nervously, stammering "individuality... no stereotypes whatever... leave me alone." and things like that. The poor girl is afraid you are trying to squeeze her and her friends into a single mold: the stringy brunette mold perhaps, or worse, the intense, amoral. Bohemian mold. Life. Holiday, the New York Times. Sports Illustrated, and Leonic St. John became her eternal enemies as soon as they suggested one-word summaries...

Author: By Faye Levine, | Title: Peach, Chocolate, and Lime The Three Famous Flavors of Radcliffe | 9/18/1969 | See Source »

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