Word: afraid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...wonder who they're afraid might get into that place?" I asked as we drove off. A voice from the back seat mumbled, "Necrophiliacs...
...this year, according to Zavelle and two senior tutors, a student signed the statement of intent to steal and later denied that he had intended to shoplift. The student said he had forgotten to pay for the goods in question, and confessed because he had been emotionally upset and afraid that he would not be allowed to leave the room until he had signed the form...
Holy secularity was becoming wholly secular and the effect scared the lot of us. Not that we were afraid of incarnating Christ-the Holy Spirit beat the theologians to that one-but that the search for God's immanence could lead to His entrapment. Once He got in He might be trapped in (remember Vietnam?). Or, and this is the other possibility which hurt Protestantism badly, pushing Him outside the domed-in-world (as Ficino did in Renaissance Italy) to work things out for ourselves would leave little room for Transcendental values. The alternatives were apparent to many in "academe...
...ordinary detective is a hunk of merchandise, like a gun and bullets. Anybody with enough small change can buy him. Philip Marlowe is the exception. "Down these mean streets a man must go who is not himself mean," wrote Chandler, "who is neither tarnished nor afraid." Trading on the name, the Marlowe makers have banished fear, but they forgot to remove the tarnish...
Neither of Hurley's parents, both natives of Ireland, likes football. His father thinks it is a dirty game, and his mother is afraid that he might be injured. But Neil's two older brothers encouraged him, and he played-by sneaking out of the house with his uniform in a bag, and getting dressed for practice in the coach...