Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...members of the administration, then, haunted perhaps by the spectre of Columbia, saw the presence of the students in Paine Hall as an intractable ultimatum. And perhaps out of fear they responded with an ultimatum of their own. Most of us afraid ourselves, responded with yet another ultimatum. There was not an ounce of free will in Paine Hall that day. There was only the stink of fear, and the rigidity that fear brings...
...wanted to leave, but felt like a man on a crowded escalator waiting for the right step to get off, afraid to reveal his panic to the other shoppers by bolting too soon and the whole time crushed by visions of what would happen when he shreds under, riser and tread, all his ribbon and wrapping adangle down the dark side of the moon." This is Turpin-college graduate, widower, veterinarian, and part-time lobster fisherman-forging flinchingly ahead in three days of misadventure that resembles a manic sleepwalker's nightmare...
...afraid of getting expelled, but I don't intend to do it over an issue that isn't very, very important to me--and ROTC simply isn't," one student said
...currency crises, was a thing of the mind. The economy of France is basically healthy: its balance of payments is sound; its unemployment rate is fairly low; productivity has been rising at a reasonable rate. The franc was in peril because enough of those holding it as currency were afraid it would...
Then there was the first time I saw Elvis on Ed Sullivan, the old man, that old dead man walking around with his hands up shouting "Silence! Silence, please!" and that incredible screaming of everyone in the nation, even if they were afraid to do it in front of their parents...