Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cheeky faces, with their ruble's worth of self-assurance and five kopecks' worth of understanding-though some are trusting, simple-mouthed) crowd around and watch a performance that no one can buy tickets to see. Following the lantern come two banner bearers. They, too, as though afraid, huddle together...
...best answer seems to be that the Columbia administration was unusually arbitrary in its decision-making, excluding faculty and students from its deliberations almost entirely. Kirk, comments Ted Kheel, the labor arbitrator, was a "typical weak manager afraid to confront his board of directors." Policy-making was a matter between Kirk and the trustees. It was not unnatural for him to withhold from release a student-faculty advisory policy on indoor demonstrations. Kirk substituted him won rule--a blanket ban on indoor picketing and demonstrations, whose enforcement against five SDS leaders in the IDA demonstration was the grievance...
...have only fear. Scared to walk on the streets of Cambridge, afraid to drive in Roxbury, frightened by the news of violent acts, the response of people is to shutter the windows, bolt the door, and scream for more police protection...
...nothing," answered Scott. "In a fecund nothingness. Don't be afraid...
...afraid," mused Nathan...