Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Play can also be a way of manipulating the elements of the world that can hurt you, a way of neutralizing them, a way of keeping them at a distance, so you don't have to deal with them directly. John, for example, is, according to Davies' book, deathly afraid of growing old. And one can only imagine of what those who are extremely crippled may represent...
NIXON has not had to lie to be devious. He has just kept silent on the pretext that he is afraid of jeopardizing the Paris peace talks...
...owner of the Brattle Florist said, "I don't mind the pickets. But they're not going to come in here and tell me how to run my business. I am not afraid...
...everyone involved was waiting for the Friday meeting of the Board of Regents. Reagan forces had captured control of the Board in 1967, and even Unruh seemed somewhat afraid that they might over-react...
...TEACH us to be honest, but what we see around us is a world afraid of the truth--a culture characterized by hypocrisy, evasion, distortion, and outright lies. We have long since grown accustomed to such dishonesty from the mass media and from the elected officials who rule our nation. This past year the affliction seems to have spread even to the highest reaches of our own university. Indeed, almost as often as our brothers at Columbia, we have had occasion to recall the late Upton Sinclair's descripiton of the modern college president as "the most universal faker...